12th March - Editing

Editing

Today, in lesson we captured the videos which we shot earlier and then started the editing process. Firstly we looked at all of the clips which we had taken throughout filming process which were accessible through the (T) Drive. Whilst watching the clips all of us had a discussion about which bits of that can be used and which bits we can crop slightly. We filmed more so that in the editing process we had enough footage, rather than having to go out and shoot at the last minuted. We decided that the hand held cam (taken by Sophie) for the pan worked better than the tripod pan (taken by Josh). This was due to the fact that, due to the bird eye view shot of this shot, the tripod pan was fairly rigid and inconsistent. This obviously, wasn't the effect we wanted to achieve. Therefore we decided to use the hand held camera footage. We then placed the clips of me walking (using fade transition) after pan sequence, then faded back into the panning of the photos. We played around with the saturation and brightness levels, because, due to the fact that the panning sequence was in black and white, it was quite a contrasting change to go from black and white to colour.

Unfortunately, towards the end of the lesson we we were about to insert the video that we captured earlier, we found out that we hadn't put them in wide screen, when all our other shots are on wide screen. These pieces of footage obviously couldn't be used because, even when edited looked extremely smaller than the others. This was very unfortunate, although we decided as a group that next Monday we would edit what we had, and if we needed the footage then we would re-film it (in the correct screen size).