Editing - Process Of Editing

Once we'd completed shooting all our footage we began editing, starting on the 25th of February using Final Cut Pro, a non-lineal video editing software. We started by firstly sorting out the shots we filmed over the two days, excluding the shots we weren't going to use from the shots we were either going to use or may have considered using. This process alone took a while considering we'd filmed quiet a lot of shots at a wide range of different angles, thereby providing us with more options to choose from, depending on which parts had turned out the best.

After we'd chosen our clips, we went on to create the sequence. Whilst doing so we found ourselves swapping some scenes around having realised it would potentially transpire better than our original set ideas on how we wanted, clip by clip, our end product to be viewed.


 



On our second day of editing which was on the 26th of February, we continued with added more clips to the time line, also adding video transition effects as we went along and were happy to see our work beginning to take shape.










Between the 27th and the 28th of February we aimed to finish our rough cut version of our thriller opening, however we did not manage the task completely as there was no sound nor were there any titles attached to our sequence. Since we hadn't blogged at all on the editing process, once we'd gained feedback on our efforts so far, we discussed who'd do which posts before we resumed editing on the 1st of March.

As we continued editing along the days between our Media lessons and workshop, as well as during our spare time, we soon found ourselves going back to the drawing board, looking through all our original footage from both filming days, adding in clips we'd previously planned to discard, either because we needed to create a change in scenery to build up the suspense and tension between two similar scenes, almost as if using it as a video transition, thereby also creating silken fluidity throughout the scenes, or, for example, towards the very end of our thriller opening where we added in a deleted scene we'd initially planned on using somewhere within the very beginning when planning or sequence, realising we needed something else in-between the last two clips that allowed them to combine in such a way that it wouldn't come across as if there'd been thrown together randomly. Most clips we found were fairly long considering we'd only been given two minutes in which were to create the entire opening thriller opening, therefore guarantying us an huge amount of editing to do to make the clips shorter and precise, which required a lot of patience and persistence.