AS Media - Editing/Post Production

The brief:

- To edit a section of our final filmed piece

To start off the session, using CMD + I, I imported all of the media into a new project. after this I arranged all of the clips in chronological order as seen below.

Using the zoom slider located at the bottom right of the screen (as above) I zoomed into the clip for more precision to blade (CMD + B) the clip, to make this as precise and as smooth a transition as possible. (examples seen below)

As the beginning of our first clip is fairly long we decided to blade(CMD + B) the clip at the start by roughly 2 seconds shaving the time down, whilst also removing unnecessary footage. (seen below)

After this decision I further bladed the clip so that the unnecessary footage at the end of the clip was removed, whilst making the continuity from the first clip into the second was apparent.

After this to match the continuity form the first clip I bladed the second clip, making sure that the same leading leg went first, when the actress is walking, so that the continuity of the scene looks normal.

After this the actress, in the scene, begins to laugh and smile towards the end of the clip so we had to edit that out whilst getting as much footage out of it as possible so that the clip was not too short. This involved using CMD + 0 to make the zoom into the clip frame by frame making me able to precisely and accurately locate the point at which the actress turns her head.

After a lot of the same procedure being done for most of the clips we came across a part of our opening scene that was a slight challenge due to when we filmed the two clips from different angles the actress in frame bends down in different ways. Therefore we had to blade the majority of the end of the first scene so that the switching of angles from in front to behind more seamless and continuous. Then we needed to blade the next clip so that the moment at which the actress is bent down matches when she stands back up, this involved again zooming into the frame by frame breakdown of the clip and blading the beginning of the clip to match the exact position of the actress. This is seen through the following two screenshots of the progress of cutting each clip to match one another.

After this there is a sequence, in which the actress in frame puts a pair of earphones in, encapsulated in a close up of her ear and a mid shot surrounding this with her entering the frame. This was especially difficult in comparison to the other clips I had been editing, due to the close up needing to be in the middle of the mid shot. This meant firstly I had to blade the start of the clip to match the previous clip. After this I then had to blade the mid shot clip at the point that the actress put the pair of earphones in illustrated in the third screenshot down.

After this I then bladed the close up clip so that the exact footage that was necessary (the earphone going in her ear) was captured in the clip. (As illustrated in the screenshots below)

After this we had a clip of blood dripping on the floor in a substantially too long clip, so I bladed the clip so that the shorter more relevant clip was formed (below left). Whilst watching over the footage my peers and I noticed that there was a small yet noticeable amount of shaking from the camera. So we used the 'Stabilization' function (below right) so that the motion of the camera would be stabilised and smooth instead of tiny jitters being apparent. This was indicated by the orange highlighting on the time part ontop of the clip (below left).