Preliminary Final Editing

Today was our last time to edit and finish our group preliminary filming task. Within this process I felt that there were positives and negatives.

I felt that our group worked well. We all tried really hard and took equal turns in using Final Cut Pro and inputted ideas to create our sequence. I think I got the hang of it and now understand the basics of editing film.

Although I feel that there were a few negatives. Unfortunately today one of our group members was ill which meant that we didn't have the full team making decisions together. Throughout editing there were a few problems for example the programme crashed and we hadn't saved some of our work which meant we had to do it again-but it was a good learning experience and from then on we were all very conscious of saving continuously.

Another was at the beginning we had wanted to show a close up of the knees down walking in. Annoyingly we hadn't recorded just walking in with no dialogue so it meant we had to completely delete the audio which means there is a few seconds at the beginning where there is silence and I feel that it doesn't look that great for the first few seconds.

In our prelim I really liked how we used many shots and the sound was really clear and with the help of Matt we managed to cut very neatly and it looked and sounded good. I think it was a good try for our first time and I found it quite fun and satisfactory once finished.