Awakening Short Form - UPDATED Final Edit (Probably)

Ok, so now available is the (probably) final version of my Awakening edit, now including the new titles.

You will be able to access and download it on my vimeo page or view it in the player below.

To give a brief overview of the edit of The Awakening and the decisions taken:

As this was only two 25 minute episodes we were editing down from 50 minutes. As a result it was less about restructuring the story and more about trying to move the action along a little more quickly through better editing

• First type of change - scene length reduction. A good example of where the overall scene has been reduced is at the start - the original story had some great ideas for dramatic effect at the beginning but Jane's searching for Ben is just too slow. By retaining the playing of these scenes between those of the arriving riders and some judicious editing I think we achieve a better intro.
• Second type of change - straight scene splits. In some cases we have taken some lengthier scenes and spliced them between the action of other scenes. The overall benefit of this is to take the action forward in a more pacey manner, making for a better overall story. It is worth noting that as I worked through The Awakening I noticed that within the story we already move on quite quickly from one scene to the next - for example when the Doctor and team are "arrested" outside the church they arrive over at the house pretty quickly. Where possible I have tried to address issues like this but in some cases this was unavoidable.
• Third type of change - lengthened scene splits. A good example of this is when the TARDIS is first landing. When splitting this scene for dramatic effect, there's actually a good couple of seconds that appear in both scenes ... which works quite well!
• Fourth type of change - darker interpretation. One thing I did try to do throughout was to make the protagonists seem darker. As a result I have taken some of their nicer banter out to make them more menacing.

Much of the action towards the end of the piece has been retained as it was as the pacing is pretty good. However I did have to make one edit I didn't like to use my closing titles as unfortunately Davison's words are lost into the end credit howl of the original. As a result we cut the end of the programme with Will's comment on tea sounding pretty awful. Not ideal but unavoidable with the technology available to me.



As always feedback much appreciated!

Cheers

Adam