Editing Mayhem!

I managed to upload some earlier versions of the edit at uni today, and here they are!

This first one starts with a shot of Liam at the top of the stairs in silence, as Adam had a song in mind to play over the top of it. It's a good opening shot, and the music fit really well with the footage (unfortunately it's not present in this edit) but eventually we made the decision to use just Tom's music in the film, which I think works a little better.

This is only the first minute and a half or so of footage, and there are some moments where Tom hesitates, repeats himself, or says things that weren't really important enough to make the final cut, so a lot of it had to be trimmed down.

This second edit starts with the opening we used in the final edit, albeit in a much longer and silent form. The film is starting to take shape a lot more by this point, but it's still too long and there's a lot of unnecessary footage and clutter.

The interview with Tom's flatmate and band member, also called Tom, was cut entirely as we all decided what he says doesn't really add much to the documentary and used up time that could be used to show the relationship between father and son in greater depth.

By this stage the film is way past the embryonic stage, and almost ready to stand on it's own two legs and take it's first formative steps. The intro now has music (but still no titles!), but we had to cut out a major chunk towards the end as I noticed Andria actually wanders into shot in the lower left hand side of the screen. I'm not sure how this glaring error had passed under the radar for so long, so we got rid of it! The first few shots were left pretty much untouched in the final version, apart from a few short snippets of audio for the running length. We also chose to discard the footage of the empty playground when Tom talks about childhood, as the shots seemed a little out of place with the rest of the film and just took up valuable time!

The interview with the other Tom has been replaced with more audio of Tom talking about his relationship with Liam and some shots of him, and a lot of the audio has been trimmed down to remove moments for Tom pauses for more than a few seconds or repeats himself. It's also the first time the shots of the band have been included, and is pretty much representative of the final product apart from the lack of credits.