Studio Production: Editing Norman's Trailer

Today we were editing the VTs for the fine cut viewing. I was focussing predominately on the trailer as I was the lead Director for this VT. I worked with Laura who was the main editor for this VT so I could make some decisions regarding how I wanted the final edit to look and sound.
In terms of the montage section, I wasn't able to edit with Laura for the rough cut viewing and so had lots of changes to make for this sequence. I had imagined it to be snappy and fast paced to reflect the super hero theme and to account for the limited time frame. We went through the clips and chose the ones that would work best. As I had filmed several close ups of Norman's face for the mask and glasses etc, I wanted to use these throughout. There were some disputes with the Producer and other Director about whether to have the reveal of his face at the end. However, I had intended for the last shot to be a slow reveal which tilts up to show his final form. Therefore it made sense to use the close ups throughout rather than just at the end of the VT before the reveal. We then found sound effects to work with the actions to make the montage more dynamic and even snappier.
In terms of the other sequences, I decided to cut these down to only a few shots for each sequence so that Norman would be rushing around, delivering his DVDs in true super hero style. There were some issues with sound for the sequence with Saskia as she wasn't clip mic'd. Although, we managed to edit these in premiere to make them sound clearer.
Overall, I am relatively pleased with the trailer, however, the issues with the sound levels have brought the quality down slightly. However, I enjoyed editing with Laura as I felt like we agreed on the decisions and worked well as a team.