Seminar 8 - Introduction to Brief 3

At the start of this seminar, we looked through the last of the Night Journey fine cuts and gave feedback on them, and then we were introduced to the third and final brief.

Brief for comedy edit.

This brief was to edit a scene from a previous years final 3rd year project film which was a comedy called Out Of Date. We had around 7 scenes to choose from and we would have to select one and edit it down to a 2-3 minute long film. The learning outcomes and assessment criteria were much similar to previous briefs apart from with the addition of 'Develop your fine cutting skills'.
My initial thoughts on this brief are that it will be once again very interesting and challenging to edit just one scene from this 10-15 minute long film and compress that scene down to just 2-3 minutes. However, throughout this module, I have become accustomed to working with footage that I have never seen before and with narratives that aren't initially clear to me as an outside editor, so I believe that this brief will allow me to apply all the things I have learnt up to this point and create a really solid and tightly cut final piece. This is also the first chance I have had to cut a comedy and as a keen comedy enthusiast, I am relishing the opportunity to do so and apply all the knowledge that I have gained in comedic timing e.t.c.