Editing film on final cut

Priscilla and I were editing the film on final cut, and our editing had improved a considerable amount, when a friend asked to look at a bit of it, she commented that the cuts were done quite well and that the continuity editing was done very well as it flowed.

while editing we did a lot more things than we had done last year, such as using a soft focus effect on the flashbacks and changing the hue and saturation to brighten or dimming particular scenes such as the flashbacks, so that they contrasted with the scenes with hope in her bedroom.

Problems that we came across while editing was that it was still way over the 5 minute limit and deciding on what to cut out, even though certain shots were really well done, we had to sift through what exactly was necessary.

This is a screenshot from the film of the sister (priscilla) crying, I decided to put a black and white effect, plus a soft effect to connote the sadness of the sister, and how this was in particular a dark moment for Hope, it is only at this point that the flashbacks are no longer bright, as this was the last time that Hope remembers seeing her.