Major Project: Editing-Receiving Equipment

Major Project: Editing-Receiving Equipment

This sequence is mostly actuality, where Alex explains the equipment he's now bought and will be racing with. Originally this sequence followed an interview with racing driver Bruno Spengler, which Alex had filmed and edited before I joined the project. But this ended up being cut since this sequence stands fine on its own. 

The scene was very simple to edit. It was all done in one take, I just had to pick the best one. To make it more interesting I did some cool L-cutting and audio work at the start. Establishing the scene with a drone shot, and having the audience hear a knock at Alex's door. Before seeing him walk in to his room with the equipment. I think this cut works really well. 

To keep some energy in the scene I used cut in's that were filmed after the first take to highlight all of the equipment. Not all of these cuts matched perfectly at first but with a bot of scaling, I got two of them to work and just scrapped the third. It tricks the audience in to thinking there's a second camera which is cool.

The scene then transitions in to Alex reaching his fundraising goal. Originally this was a corssfade but we all agreed it worked better as a dip to black, as it made it look like the filming stops and we are now just a fly on the wall. Upon Simons suggestion, I also put a graphic here to illustrate hitting the fundraiser.