Whilst the final tweaking of the edit was going on, Jared went away and recorded a soundtrack for the film, which I thought was very fitting, and was very pleased with.
Jared also took over responsibility for the foley, recording it in the sound studio. He showed me what he'd done and asked my opinion. I was pleased with what he'd recorded, but the levels needed some major adjustments. I advised him to adjust them, and to also put in a bit of sound panning if he had time. I offered to take over the responsibility of the sound to make the appropriate changes (as I am quite fond of applying foley and playing with it as I'd had a bit of experience doing it for a project with Amanda where we re-recorded and designed the sound for a scene from Solaris), but Jared said he was happy to continue doing it.
The next time he showed me his progress, the sound was much better and he had put music to it, too. I was pleased with what he had done. There were just a few things that I wanted to adjust, such as some of the sounds placement as some of it seemed to be a little out of sync. When Jared asked me to watch the latest version of the film, I asked him if I could have a copy of all the files we'd been using. It was on the way to the edit suite that Jared dropped his hard drive. We lost all the sound files, latest edit and footage from the back-up camera. Luckily there was a fairly recent edit on the mac he'd been working on, with all the foley and music on. Unfortunately, this meant I could make the adjustments and final tweaks on the soundtrack that I had wanted to (I am a little too much of a perfectionist when it comes to sound) which was disappointing.
We still had the ending to finish and were finding it hard to agree on how it was going to happen. Other than that, it was just the titles we had to do, which we left until last as they seemed least important up against the rest.
I took responsibility over making the titles, as I'd had previous experience from when we did our re-title project. We agreed on how we wanted them to be as a group and I cracked on with it.
When Jared did his presentation and the latest version of the film was shown, some changes in the edit were suggested, and as Jemma was unavailable, I spent the evening trying to improve the film, but most importantly the ending. I had to re-download the original footage from vimeo and added in a shot (The close up of the cane) as we were told to shorten the shot of the man finding his way around the patio, but was having trouble doing so by just removing bits, as it looked weird because it jumped. I then had to take out some recording equipment to record foley for the newest shot, and also recorded some additional sound for the scene. The ending was proving difficult to adjust, because we only had the sound we'd used in the actual edit of the film available, having to copy parts of the film and paste the music, but hopefully it's not too noticeable. As it was only me editing, I only had my ideas and opinions to go by, and was running out of time. I would have liked to have had critical opinions from the rest of the crew on what I'd put together for the ending, as I was very unsure about it, and, in my opinion, endings are always important because it's the last image/sounds you leave with the audience.. But because they were last minute changes, I just had to settle for what I had done. It definitely still needs some work, and will take some experimentation to discover an interesting and ideal way to finish the film.
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