The first thing I did was to show the climax of the film at the beginning, to plant the audience in the action straight away leaving the rest of the film to explain the previous events that led to it.
I changed the way some scenes were edited in so that it was more different from the continuity edit, right after Spencer is shot i cut to a title card with the background narration from Benjamin being heard. "I remember how it all started".
This establishes to the audience what type of film they are watching and that they are going to be given an insight into what just happened.
I showed the flashback first to give a smooth run of the film at the beginning then leading to the present day, doing this i believe kept the story in tune with reality and understandable for the audience.
One thing i chose to leave in this cut was the death of Spencer, meaning it was seen twice in the film and doing this is to see if the audience can feel two completely different emotions to it and react differently to each time they see it. At the beginning we see it but we are confused and we don't understand what exactly is happening and why it is, but then as the story progresses the second time the audience sees it they should feel something completely different emotionally.
Most editing techniques were kept the same for this edit as there was nothing i could really change if i wanted to drive tension to the audience and since it worked extremely well for the continuity edit I did not want to change as it did not give the same payoff and the same effect on the audience was not made.
One thing i did change was that the screen went black on Spencer's dialogue to show that the audience i right where they began and they are fully caught up on all the information.
i do believe that having the audeince know the ending and fill in the information as the film goes on can be fun for the audience as they are enticed by the action but I do not believe that effect was made in this film, in all honesty, I did not like this edit of the film. The story was made, wrote, storyboarded and filmed to a specific sequence of actions as we analysed that the decisions we initially made could not be rearranged to achieve the same goal.
I also noticed that the pacing seems slower because there is no build up of anticipation in the film because we know the outcome and therefore the viewer initially doesn't connect emotionally with Spencer as they know he is going to die, also for the character Anthony, his revaluation that Spencer is the bad guy doesn't seem as powerful because the audience instantly associates Anthony as a murderer from the very beginning.
There was one shot which i did actually like and it was the ending shot. It is a slow zoom out revealing the aftermath of the evening, but its how the cut shows Benjamin completely alone and his late friend are now dead on the floor. The lack of emotion is shown by this shot, hollow and empty, which reminds the audience for one last time that all the characters are bad and there are no real heroes in this story.
