The Start of our Group Edit.
Today we began editing our project. As Aleicia’s train was delayed, I carried on by logging and capturing all of the footage we had filmed over the two filming days. This didn’t take too long, so once we had our rushes I began looking through them, selecting some of the best content that would be usable within the edit.
As our short film contains flashback scenes, I decided to get started by editing some of these scenes. Once I had the content in the right order, and I was happy with it. I added a video effect called ‘Tint’ over the top of the images. This gave the moving images a black and white effect, creating a flashback feel. The reason I chose to do this was because a couple of members on the pitching panel had suggested it to us, to make it clearer and more understandable for the viewers watching.
When Aleicia arrived, we began editing the ‘studio footage’. Personally I thought these scenes were some of the most difficult to edit; because some of the lighting was quite poor in some shots but also we didn’t to get the cuts right so the film’s continuity was correct.
When editing our film, we did encounter a few problems with the computer as it kept crashing on us. The first time it crashed, was a bit gutting as we did loose some of our work we had already done. But this was our fault, as we should have kept saving it. However once this had happened we learnt our lesson and we began saving the edit after every 5 minutes to ensure we didn’t loose too much work.
Today we got our rough cut done, but after watching it back we felt that the flashback scenes didn’t look quite right, something was missing. We both decided that we should alter the speed of the clip by slowing them down, this worked well. One of the shots I thought looked effective after adding the effect and altering the speed was the opening birthday shot. I feel it’s a good opening scene as it sets the mood for the rest of the film. Once we had the content in story order, we decided to call it a day and continue the editing tomorrow.
As our short film contains flashback scenes, I decided to get started by editing some of these scenes. Once I had the content in the right order, and I was happy with it. I added a video effect called ‘Tint’ over the top of the images. This gave the moving images a black and white effect, creating a flashback feel. The reason I chose to do this was because a couple of members on the pitching panel had suggested it to us, to make it clearer and more understandable for the viewers watching.
When Aleicia arrived, we began editing the ‘studio footage’. Personally I thought these scenes were some of the most difficult to edit; because some of the lighting was quite poor in some shots but also we didn’t to get the cuts right so the film’s continuity was correct.
When editing our film, we did encounter a few problems with the computer as it kept crashing on us. The first time it crashed, was a bit gutting as we did loose some of our work we had already done. But this was our fault, as we should have kept saving it. However once this had happened we learnt our lesson and we began saving the edit after every 5 minutes to ensure we didn’t loose too much work.
Today we got our rough cut done, but after watching it back we felt that the flashback scenes didn’t look quite right, something was missing. We both decided that we should alter the speed of the clip by slowing them down, this worked well. One of the shots I thought looked effective after adding the effect and altering the speed was the opening birthday shot. I feel it’s a good opening scene as it sets the mood for the rest of the film. Once we had the content in story order, we decided to call it a day and continue the editing tomorrow.
posted by Keely @ 10:18
1 Comments:
At 15 June 2008 at 16:20 ,
Kim Brooke said...
A good description of the edit and yes the slo mo works really well in the film. Good to see a screen grab.
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