We started editing. It didn't start so well. I had several idea in my mind of how the trailer should start, but the opening shot had changed so much from how we originally planned it that we actually didn't have a way of starting the trailer. And at first, we were getting frustrated because the shots just looked so uninteresting, all strung together without full coherency or a story. I kind of wanted to try editing on my own, but when I did that, I found a lot of problems, mostly with the audio, that I couldn't decide what to do with without my group guiding me. I brought up the problems with the audio, mostly in the cafe scene with Lara and Navid acting. You couldn't properly hear them, and the way I wanted to have some of what Navid was saying as a voice over was really difficult, because the dialogue was so continuous, without any pauses. This made it hard to have other scenes going on at the same time. We thought it might be worth recording a voiceover, but that would negate the footage of the therapist and his colleague talking in the cafe, which we wanted to keep in as it gave some context as to what the therapist is saying and who he is talking to. Over dubbing didn't work either, so we settled on just trying to make it work with what we had.
We did end up deciding on how to start the trailer. We wanted to have a shot of Veronica, the one where she is looking out the window, that we filmed for the original therapist's office scene, but the bit we cut made it look too much like a still photo, it was really unnatural. We already had other footage edited, like the cafe scene linking to the restaurant and other bits from there, but we needed a start, and this beginning wasn't linking well. We then elongated that shot to see what happens next, if Veronica moves, which she did. She turns around and gets up off the sofa that she was kneeling on. I thought that, to link it to another scene, we could have another character, or Veronica, moving in that direction again, so it's like a continuous movement and it would look pleasant to watch. We found a shot of the cafe scene, which linked perfectly both to that bit and to the stuff we'd already edited.
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