Nick King - Editor

We had a work shop where a professional editor, Nick King, to help my group and I's broaden our ideas for our film. His twenty of experience gave use ideas for our opening scene, we came up with the idea to make the first shot of our main character as awkward as possible. In this case to use a 15 second shot of his face to re-enforce the idea that our main character seems suicided. 

Another tip he gave us was to not use narration in our film because it is hard to achieve good narration. Also we wanted to use his most useful tip for our film which was, less is more. This means to not clutter the editing sequences with lots of shots so the scene is easier to understand and not disorientating. Nick's term, less is more, will also help us for the sound effects/music. For example, not to mix lots of sounds and music together, creating a muffled noise. Finally, he told us, when shooting, to make sure that we shoot, reshoot, reshoot then reshoot again. This is because when we get to edit the footage it is easier to intercut.