The footage already exists. Editing, colour grading, sound, titles and subtitles - the work that turns a drive of rushes into a film with a beginning and an end.
It does not have to have been shot by us. Material from your own shoot, from an event, from an archive, or from several sources that never met, arrives here and is cut here by the team that edits Heero Agency's own films.
01. What arrives, and how it is ordered
It all comes in first: cards, drives, sound recorded separately, and the clip somebody caught on a phone from the back of the room. We sync the audio, label the material and watch it through before the edit starts.
Then we agree what the film is. Footage arrives longer than the film it is going to become, so the useful decision early on is what the piece is about and what will not be in it. That gets said before the edit, not discovered halfway through it.
02. The assembly, and the story in it
The first assembly is structure: the order, the pace, what the film opens on and where it stops. Music and sound go in early, because a scene that holds in silence often stops holding once a track sits under it.
Each version goes out with a timecode running on the picture. A remark pinned to a second can be acted on, a general impression much less so, which is the form we ask for them in - and the version after it answers them one by one.
03. Grade, sound, subtitles and the versions out
Once the cut is locked, the grade, the sound mix and the titles follow in that order. Grading is what makes shots recorded at different hours, or by different people, read as one film rather than several.
Subtitles are written and timed to the speech, in Arabic, French or English, burned into the picture or handed over as a separate file. You get a master, and the versions cut from it in the shapes each platform takes, horizontal and vertical.
What you get
Footage from any shoot, ours or someone else's, taken in and cut here.
Colour grading, sound mix, titles and subtitles, carried out here on the locked cut.
Subtitles written and timed in Arabic, French and English, burned in or supplied as a separate file.
One master and the versions cut from it, horizontal and vertical, ready to upload.
