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).

Post Production- Editing

Now that we had finished filming, we began to start editing our shots. To make it fair, we all took it in turns to edit different parts of out shots so that everyone got a chance at editing a different part and used their skills and knowledge and applied them to the post production part of our coursework.

I was the second person in our group to start editing. As a group, we decided that it would be suitable to 'blade' all of our clips so that we can see how long our final piece would be and we can see what all of the shots look like in a concise and fluid order.

I began to edit my section of our shots at the extreme close up shot of Lucy's eyes. To do this I first selected the clip, and then bladed it so that it was much shorter as the original clip was too long and at one point she looks straight into the camera.

However, when we looked back at the new shot of her eyes, we felt that it was too long so I 'undid' the blade and made the shot of her eyes shorter. When we looked at the even shorter shot of the eyes, we all agreed that this looked much better.

 








The next piece of editing I did was again blading the shots that we got. This was the first piece of editing that our whole group did as this would make it easier to see how long our piece would be and we would be able to see roughly what our final opening scene would look like.

I then started to edit one of our match on action shots where Lucy drops the phone. For this I needed to shorten the clip down as there was too much footage of Lucy walking into the frame and walking off of it. For this I bladed and deleted the start of the clip where she walks into the frame from the right side of the camera.

The last piece of blading I did for the beginning of the editing of our shots was when Josh walks up some steps. For this shot, again it was too long and the shot continued even after Josh was out of frame. This would appear boring for the audience and would mean that we would have less time left for other shots that would be more valuable. For this clip I bladed and deleted the end off the clip so that it was a lot shorter and more suitable.