The Editing process

Hello all :)

So as our film is finished now, thought i'd tell you about the editing process that we've been wrestling with for the last few weeks.

So firstly, we had a lot of footage to organise and sort for our film. There were loads of different shots that we took to see what we wanted to integrate during the editing. We went through it scene by scene and sifted through the shots to decide which ones we liked better. After that was done, we needed to work on continuity and all our match-on-actions. We have quite a few match-on-actions during the piece, (about four in total), and we needed to make sure these were perfect and flowed really nicely together. It took us quite a while to make sure all the match-on-actions were perfect.

After doing this we then put titles in because they were really important. Using titles in the bottom right corner gave us the look of the clock that's counting down. This was important for us because it was a key element in our thriller plot. This took us quite a while because we had to change the time of the clock to fit to the time of our film. We needed the clock in the corner's time to tick down in time with the film so that it reached 00.00 at the end of the opening.

After completing this (this probably took the most time), we decided to edit some of our hostage shots because they didn't look entirely correct. We had some feedback from Miss Hill, who said that the main negative point she had about the opening so far was that the hostage shots were too light and didn't represent danger or peril enough. We decided to edit the shots and made them darker. We experimented with a sepia effect, but it looked better on some shots than it did on others. After deciding that instead of sepia, we should bring down the brightness of the shot, we had completed everything to do with our shots.

The last element that needed completing was the music integration. This had taken us a while because we wanted to take a batman clip's music off youtube and we hadn't had the time or the skills needed to complete the task yet. We listened to our music clip in our last editing lesson and decided that it was too 'epic'. We then experimented with different thriller soundtracks on youtube whilst watching our film at the same time. After using quite a few different soundtracks we fund a less epic track from the Dark Knight that we thought sounded perfect. After taking the music off youtube and putting it on our film we then perfected the sound quality and where it came in.

AND THAT IS HOW WE EDITED AND STUFF.

Thanks, bye! x