USC’s Advanced Editing

Class Notes 04/03/08

Thoughts/Suggestions:

• Move Oona’s Timer hits Zero to sometime during the party to attempt to create suspense. The question is what problem are we trying to solve?
  • We want to get the Oona’s Zero out scene closer to party.
  • What is value of Mikey calling in scene 106?
    • Some people get the feeling that Mikey got a Timer when they see the call from Mikey. Other people don’t feel that way.
  • What should we try?
    • Everyone Please take a look at this section scenes 106-113 and post comments on possible reordering
• Dan and Oona Zero out
  • Please look at notes from last week that Norm suggested
  • Something is not working in this scene
  • Sound is not working here
• Have the beeping sound of timers play over the looks between characters when the Timers go off

• Scene 93 — it feels like Dan and Steph are sleeping together – is this a problem?
• Montage — of Dan and Steph. Do we need it?
• Do we get Oona and Mikey’s arc of falling out of love?
  • Scene 96 put back in the line “Can I ask you a question?”
  • Feels like a Jump not an arc
  • Look at trimming scene 92 — because she hits the same emotional beat in scene 96—- lets do a version where we cut the on the nose stuff in the restaurant scene 92
• Look at trimming the end of scene 4-5 end of Oona Brian
• Scene 84-85 Time Transition is not working
• Problem with Oona’s motivation to go apologize to Mikey and invite to Thanksgiving — Take a look at the script or look at Editors cut and see if anything needs to go back in

Music:

· 2 songs that seem to stick out currently

o The song in scene 27-29? Do we want or need music here? We want music here. Question is score or song what time and when and where it comes in.

· In Scene 27-28 use the music as source in the store then cut to silence in the car. Picture cut into car from store don’t need to see them walk out

Picture Lock: Sunday April 6^th —- we will take a look at a few areas next week that are still not working.