29th January - Editting

Today we continued to edit our video footage. After having some initial problems we understood what we had to do and continued in a relatively fast pace. We had problems with the sound on the first few clips because we were laughing or talking over these clips. We decided to drag the sound files in to the video box below our main timeline and muted the box. However later on in the editing process once all footage was placed together, we discovered that the first 4 clips were silent andthen once we started talking normal fuzz just started and it seemed really out of place and sounded wierd. We fixed this by copy and pasting the same "fuzz" file throughout the whole of the first 4 clips. This fixed the problem of it suddenly sounding louder, however during the first 4 clips due to the repetitive sound of the "fuzz" it sounds like a broken record. In our main project we have learnt to film about 60seconds worth of ambient sound, so that if we have to mute clip for some reason we still have backgournd noise which we can always add in afterwards.

Note: It is much easier to have chunks of footage rather than it all together, because when cropping it, setting "In" and "Out" points where time consuming because we had to watch the whole clip everytime.

After having edited it so that the sound was realistic and clips flowed continuously and didn't make us, the audience, confused, we added music to the end to add atmosphere to the piece. Due to the copyright rules, mine and Charlotte's ideas couldn't be used in the peice. So, instead we used websites, advised to us by the college moodle site. We came across a few songs which could have fit the emotional ending of the piece, but we found a track from http://derekeaudette.outtwaarts.com and choose "The Long Road Into Night". We thought this track fitted the piece appropriately and added an emotional ending to the piece.

When we watched final version on Adobe Premier Pro, we discovered that we had broken the 180 degree rule, which is a vital rule for filming. We hadn't done it very obviuosly, however, due to us being able to notice it, it must have been subtly obvious. In our real project we need to take more care, and spend more time making sure this doesn't happen again.