I want to take a minute to talk about my editing. As I had mentioned in my research earlier, I wanted something sharp and crisp. Thus, one can tell that almost all of my transitions and cuts are simple, but with a little'spice'.
For my first scene, I required cloning my lead, for which I typically used masking, but here's the density of my editing: in the masking technique itself, I have also used jump cuts of my lead doing different actions to deliberately show the passing of time; towards the end of that scene, I used clear cuts alone, and that's it. Another transition used here is  'J-cut', which is typically that the sound of the shot starts playing before the visual is seen; in my edit, as she continues talking, the shot changes, with the lead simply carrying on with what she was narrating. Then, the transition from my first scene to the next was a clear cut again, but I used a movement to switch, an 'invisible whip-pan cut'. I use this transition as a way to show what is going on in my head. An invisible whip-pan cut is actually just a jump cut; however, the difference lies in the presentation. I show this as the scene's action from the previous shot continues in the next shot as well, but in a different location (the action being the camera moving up rapidly). Thus, the transition is hidden in the whip-pan movement of the camera. This scene then carries on and has simple cuts throughout, giving justice to the idea of crisp transitions. The scene that switches from my lead and her love interest to the investigation scene uses a 'match cut' which is, the action of the previous shot matching the next or is similar to that of the next shot, which in my edit is the closing of the characters eyes and then the opening of the office's door. Then there are clear cuts, also known as 'cutting on action', which is typically that an action will keep going in the same place at the same pace, however the angles, the shot is taken from changes, simply giving diversity to a shot that may seem too prolonged otherwise taken from the same angle throughout. This scene then continues with a visual showing the flow of events. These events are just shown in a hurried manner, showing elements of a story by simply using jump cuts. The next shots and scenes throughout only use jump cuts to emphasise urgency.