Editing Process

By jaimiesian

  • Editing Session 1

    During our first editing session, we looked at our original footage and decided which shots were suitable for our sequence. Some of the shots were unusable, as they may have been filmed from an angle that was inconsistent with the rest of the sequence or there may have been lighting and composition errors. Once we gathered all the raw footage, we began to cut and edit it together whilst making notes on what needed to be refilmed and what was missing from the sequence.
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    Editing Process

  • Editing Session 2

    In our second editing session, we continuted to put the raw footage together and make notes on how the overall sequence could be improved. Once completed, we shared the video on facebook and asked our friends to complete a survey based on what they had just seen. By doing this, we were able to see what needed to be improved from the audience's point of view. After looking at their feedback, we made a list of everything we needed to reshoot and created an action plan for our next filming session.

  • Editing Session 3

    After having refilmed our sequence, we spent the majority of this editing session editing the new footage and comparing it to the orginal shots. Once we had pieced everything together, we spent time looking at the jump cuts in between each clip and editing them so that, overall, the video had a smooth finish which would help create a calm and gentle atmosphere. Finally, after checking that we include a large variety of camera angles, we began to look at where the typgraphy would go in each shot.

  • Editing Session 4

    In our next session, we concentrated on the typography for the sequence. We wanted to use a white font, however most of the fonts we had downloaded from 'dafont.com' would not change colour on 'iMovie'. Furthermore, it was incredibly difficult to move the typography as iMovie did not give us complete freedom when deciding on the positioning of the font. This lead us to create a keynote presentation, which allowed us to edit the typography in the way we orginally planned.

  • Editing Session 5

    Whilst making our keynote presentation, we used a green screen so that we could embed the presentation onto 'iMovie'. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the programme, we had to change the style of font that we planned to use as we needed it to be solid, rather than translucent in the middle. After making the keynote, we began to look at our selection of songs and played them against the sequence so that we could decided which one suited it best.

  • Editing Session 6

    During this session, we completed our Keynote and started to compare it to our sequence. For each shot, we had to make sure that the typgraphy was in the right postition and didn't disturb the smooth feel of the sequence. This meant we had to keep going back and forth from Keynote to iMovie in order to perfect the positioning of the font.

  • Editing Session 7

    In this session, we editied our chosen piece of music so that it would fit with the opening sequence. We used garage band to edit the pitch and tone of the song didn't contrast with the mise-en-scene. Additonally, we edited the volume of the song at certain parts of the sequence so that it wouldn't prevent the audience from hearing the dialogue.

  • Editing Session 8

    During our 8th editing session, we spent time making sure the music fit with the sequence and kept going over small details, such as jump cuts, to make sure they didn't have a negative impact on our opening sequence. Additionally, we experimented with the music by using two different songs to symbolise our protagonist's inner conflict and the change in mood and atmosphere.

  • Editing Session 9

    During this editing session we invited a mixed-gender focus group, consisting of people from various age groups, to watch our sequence and answer a few questions on it. From this, the main port that we learnt was that the narrative was unclear as we had filmed the outside scenes in the daylight, when she was supposed to be sneaking out. This meant that we would have to reshoot the latter half of our sequence.

  • Editing Session 10

    After having re-shot a few of our scenes a few days previously, we came together and began to edit the raw footage, as well as joining it together with the original shots. Towards the end of this session, we felt that the sequence was finally coming together and were extremely pleased with the raw footage itself. We felt that there would be no need to reshoot anymore scenes, and were looking forward to completing this project at a high standard.

  • Editing Session 11

    After having edited the raw footage together, we put the music that we orginally decided on alongside the sequence and made sure that the changes in volume and pitch fit with the mise-en-scene. Then, we added the the Keynote presentation and made sure that each credit was in the right postition and didn't change the audience's view of the video.

  • Editing Session 13

  • Editing Session 14