I used the wide shot of the scene as a base to work from, and simply cut in mid-close up shots of the characters throughout, to break up the scene. I also used these shots because Lynch uses a lot of these, in an obscure framing method, to make the audience feel uncomfortable, which is what I aimed for.
I made a rough cut first, and then went through my clips and changed the pacing to make sure it was correct. The difficult thing was Lynch films are renowned for their slow and awkward pacing in order to make the audience feel uncomfortable to add to the surreal tone, and so i had to make sure i achieved this; I simply played around with the length of the clips until I was happy with it.
I didn't do too much colour grading - I only made the telephone shots slightly bluer to match the blue filter on the wide shot, and lowered saturation in some parts. On the close-up of the pistol, I had filmed a reverse shot from the opposite side so that the manufacturing logo wasn't in view and so I flipped this clip to make sure it was the right way around in the film, using the crop/pan tools.
In terms of the sound, I simply downloaded a copyright-free ambient drone track, inspired by the sound design of Lynch's Eraserhead, and then messed around with the volume and distortion on the sound control panel. I feel like this really worked to bring a strange and on-edge atmosphere to the film.
On the last shot I cut abruptly on a shot that made it look like the character was about to say something else. This is because Lynch tends to end his films quite suddenly without explanation, and I thought the cliffhanger this way would keep the audience mystified, as most Lynch films aim to do.
Other than that the editing was a very easy process that didn't bring many problems.
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