The Wolverine in 4 Minutes

Our new assignment is to take any film and compress it into 4 minutes, while still retaining the story coherently. We must also create titles from scratch using Photoshop or After Effects.

An excerpt from the edit.

To get the audio and video files to edit with, I used a transcoder called HandBrake to rip the files from my DVD copy of The Wolverine. This allowed me to have a digital copy of the film stored onto my hard drive, ready to edit wherever I can.

HandBrake.

I downloaded the video in the highest quality possible in order to retain the audio and picture quality; this meant that the audio wouldn't be totally ruined when exporting the final edit later on.

A piece of the audio track.

As the audio wouldn't cut perfectly with each other every single time, when shortening a film in this manner, I used the default transition called Constant Power to fade the audio into each other, making a seamless audio track. 

With regards to what to cut out, I chose to forgo a lot of fighting and action scenes as they were not as essential to the plot. These scenes were implemented to balance out the pace of the film, but could be dropped in order to cut the film down to 4 minutes.

This first fight scene in the bar was majorly cut to advance the

plot.