At the end of today's session, we watched a clip from A Matter of Life and Death. The clip that we watched showed a man walking up the beach and taking his bulky clothes off whilst walking to find out where he has to report. He then comes to a sign that says Keep Out and he turns around and carries on walking along the beach before seeing a dog sat on a cliff. He climbs up the cliff to the dog and then carries on walking along the cliff with the dog until he sees a boy who then informs the man that there is an RAF base nearby that he then goes to try and find.
The thing that I found most interesting about this seen it that all of the sound is ADR. This is because the scene was shot on a beach which must have been very windy and the sound of the sea may have been very dominant in the sound recordings, that would make the dialogue between the man and the boy inaudible. The ADR is very noticeable, however, the film was made in 1946 and I think that for the time that the film was made, the ADR has ben done very well.
One other thing that stood out to me about the editing of the piece is that the shots throughout the sequence are very long and there aren't many cuts. For example, the shot at the beginning whilst the man is taking his clothes off it a very long shot as the camera is tracking backwards as the man is walking towards the camera. I like the effect of having few cuts in the edit because it gives the audience time to look around the shot and get a feel of the locations.
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