We reached the halfway point in the rough edit of the movie this week and wanted to do a quick production diary post to let you all know how awesome it's going. We're really excited about what we've been able to accomplish and can't wait to share the entire film with audiences all over the country!
When it comes to editing a movie, the basic starting point is putting the individual scenes together. Within a shooting script, each scene is numbered to help organize the shoot, so in our organization of the footage within the movie project we are keeping the scenes numbered the same. In all, there are roughly 97 scenes in Dot Conner: Webtective, the Movie. Not all of those are long scenes; sometimes a "scene" can be just one shot that only lasts for a few seconds. But there are certain scenes that are long and require a lot of angles and takes to capture everything that happens.
Editing a scene involves combining the best takes from the best angles into a coherent scene that accomplishes the task of telling the story. The process of doing a rough cut means that we are only working with what we shot and are not putting anything else in, so there is missing music, sound effects, visual effects, animation, and more. It's just the "movie" as the footage shot and the dialogue recorded.
During filming, for some of the longer scenes our team would actually roll both cameras simultaneously to get two angles of a take at the same time. We wanted to share an example of what that looks like, so take a look at this top/bottom comparison of a take from the scene we shot in the church... oh, and it might involve a blooper as well, 😉.
(Color grade not final)
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