Editing: Cross cutting the tattoo and flashback scenes

To reinforce the gangster genre and the yakuza theme, I decided to rework the footage Chandler edited of the flashback scene and use the tilt upwards to view the tattoo because the motion of tilting upwards fits nicely together. 

Before cutting the footage, I first made space between the areas where I intended to place the tattoo scene. Then using the razor tool I cut the tattoo footage that would link with the flashback sequence that Chandler had edited; to make the cross cut effective, I had to remove the cross dissolve transition after the shot of Venice. 

This is how it looks like so far.