Editing our prelims!
Our group for our prelim was five of us, but to edit the shots we got spit into two groups, one of three and one group of two. I was in a group with Toby and Ellie and we worked together to sort out the good and bad takes and edit them to all flow well together in a short movie.
To start we checked out our shots that were in a folder with our names on them. We did this to make sure that when we check them in at the end of the editing session it means that they have defiantly been saved.
So once we had checked it out we looked through all of the shots we had and we watched them and decided which ones were good and which ones were bad. We copied and pasted them all into a folder called the ‘rush bin’. If they were good shots that we were possibly going to use we put them in a folder called the ‘log bin’ but if they weren’t very good we left them in the rush bin.
When we found one that we liked and wanted to use we held down the letter ‘I’ and dragged it down to the time line. Once we found all the shots we wanted to use and they were all in the timeline at the time we wanted them and when they fitted in well, we adjusted the sound so that nothing over lapped and that is flowed well and there was no jumps in speech. When we sorted out the speech problems we also added in some extra background noise that was just pauses in between speech to fill in little gaps in between some of the takes were the pauses in the speech was effective.
This is what the programme we used looked like. It was called ‘Final Cut’.
I really enjoyed learning about editing and using final cut because it is something i am going to use a lot in Media Studies. I am looking forward to posting the clip of my Prelim!
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