Editing- preliminary task

We were introduced to editing our today in order to edit our preliminary task.

To begin with it we were shown;

-The Rush Bin

 We were told to keep all our original files in the “rush bin” in the event that files were accidentally deleted or if we needed to retrieve old files.

We labelled each clip in order to organise the files and we deleted the shots which went wrong.

-The Log Bin

Once we have chosen which shots we want for our scene in editing we put them into the “log bin”.

We did all of the editing on apple mac. Software.

There were two different screens; one for viewing the original clip and the other for the shots edited together to make a scene.

When editing you must be aware of what you want to portray during the scene such as;

Who do you want the audience to feel sympathetic for?

 Usually this would mean that you would want this person to have the most camera time.

Once we finished editing different sequences we started to use sound effects. We were taught vaguely how to put pre-recorded sounds and put them over are visual recordings and how to fit them in as if they were natural diagetic sounds.

In order to use sound you are creating a new “bin” called the “sound bin”.

You can add different sounds to this bin from “final sound editing” where there are various sound effects which you can add to your sequence.

The biggest difficulty I faced while editing was motion. You have to be sure to avoid inconsistency between clips e.g if you have two different shots of a door closing you have to be sure, when putting them together that the door is at the same place when transferring to the next shot.