Hot Fuzz is a 2007 film by English director Edgar Wright. Hot Fuzz follows the story of a London police officer that is involuntarily transferred to a town where he is paired with a new partner, who together investigate a sinister conspiracy afoot with the townspeople. The film won dual awards for best comedy, as a result of the exquisite direction and a hilarious cast. However, the films success over the years are not to be recognised for solely the talent of the actors and director - Editor Chris Dickens is one of the leading reasons Wright’s films have audiences laughing hysterically from start to finish.
Over the duration of the post production phase, Dickens and the editor team faced multiple challenges, though nothing that effected the overall flow of the production too dramatically. The film was shot on Super 35mm [2.35:1 aspect ratio] film with the intent to do a digital intermediate. However, something this intensive couldn’t really have been done by cutting the negative and the norm these days is to do Super 35 as a digital intermediate anyway. One of the challenges Dickens and his team faced was that ‘Working Title’ their…show more content… Another problem Dickens’ faced was that Edgar wanted to feature more fast paced transitions to go from one scene to another. This is seen in the sequence when the police are pulling guns out of their lock-up that leads into the next scene. To edit these transitions together, Dickens needed more footage of close ups originally been filmed, so to overcome this the production company allowed for a few extra days of second unit photography. Wright remained along side the editing team during the post production phase which additionally helped Dickens overcome any editing barriers he faced, as all issues could be collaboratively solved through his collaboration with the