Editing and Narrating

I noticed the movie looked like it needed something more at the start that i hadn't accounted for, but usual title sequences didn't seem appropriate, so i filmed the child drawing a title in colourful pastels, following the narration and storytelling theme.
This story is told by a child so its not overly coherent.  When i filmed the title she did rush, and i intended to speed it up in hopes it would at worst skip a little, unfortunately any time i tried skipping more than 5% it cut out too much of the end and made no sense, so although thew title is unintentionally dragged out, it couldn't be fixed.

I heightened the scenes with colour correction but couldn't go too high incase it went pixilated.
Early in the editing stages i experimented with many editing features, including the less used transitions. i didn't want it to look like a tacky scooby doo episode but i experimented with the transitions that would enhance the fact its a child telling a story, so it would be big dramatic and have drastic movements, especially between the scenes and acts.
https://vimeo.com/102415977

To give it a childish dream like appearance that somewhat matched the imaginary friend, i experimented with mask layers and cartoon filters.
https://vimeo.com/102453112

When the narrations were included finding a simple background noise was surprisingly difficult to decide on, since the story had so many ups and downs and wasn't consistently silent or narrated.
I didn't want it too happy, or it would take away from the lowest points and problems, however it couldn't be too sad as it was a child telling you about her happiness playing with her best friend. It was really difficult, i originally thought an instrumental version of Dexys midnight runners - Come on Eileen would suit but it was too repetitive and had no obvious low for act 3.
I experimented with musicals, particular instruments and full orchestra instrumentals, popular instrumentals in games and instrumental versions of popular songs, including...
Gravity
Imagination
fireflies
enchanted
colours of the wind
part of your world
i se the light
summer nights
hikaris music box
hearts in moving
power of the moon
equivalence of two worlds
requiem of a dream

And in the end chose to edit an instrumental version of jason derulos 'trumpets' it had a slow in, alot of ups and an available low that i edited about a few times to suit the transitions between acts and the night time ending.