The Preliminary Task- Editing

Lesson 4- 28/1/10

In today's lesson, my group and I started to edit what we had film last lesson. We captured the film from the tape into the computer, and saving it on to our own 'T Drive'. The editing software that we would be using is Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. I had read the manual for this editing software the evening before, but still has some difficulties along the way which as a group we overcame.

We first started by renaming each scene from the tape so it would be easier to recognise which scene in order as it was captured in several clips. We then watched each clip to see if it was necessary to keep for our preliminary task or to delete if it was not needed. We also checked that none of our footage was corrupted which was good as this gave us more time to edit. We cropped each scene and dragged it into order on a timeline to where it was appropriate so that any mishaps were deleted, we repeated this for each shot. This helped the film sequence to flow more easily and slowly came together. The edits between each scene was a trial and error process to see what would look best, this also included special effects and the titles. This helped to see what each effect would give us to our film if were to chose a specific one.

A problem which occurred during the editing was that between each shot the lighting changed noticeably and the shot looked out of place. Another complication was that the editing took time as there were many tools that was unknown to me and to my group, but with some more practice on this programme I will be more confident when editing for the main task.

For the next lesson as a group we decided re-film the shots which had the contrasted lighting, record ambient sound like the sound of footsteps that was required in the specification and to finish the editing before the deadline.