Editing Practical: Basics:

Editing:

After finishing our filming stage I began to do the basic editing process of importing my footage and cropping it down and placing it in the correct order. This took a fair amount of time since during this process we needed to decide which footage and which take of certain scenes to include to ensure it worked the best together. W e also had to remove any sound and crop out any inappropriate scenes.

firstly I inserted the card into the laptop and dragged them to the dashboard. After this I selected the 'import' button and 'media' to import our footage into the document. I then selected the desired clips and imported them in.

Afterwards I then began to put them in the order that we had decided of during our story board planning process. I then began to crop out footage down from around 3 minutes, to 1 minute 50 seconds and then finally 50 seconds. This took time since I had to judge correctly what bits were necessary and which were not. As well as cutting down clips using precision editor to ensure they flowed correctly with the following e.g. match on action of the killer walking into her lare and opening and closing the door.



After this was done I then began to adjust and delete the audio of the clips. Since it had background noise as well as us speaking in the background.

Conclusion:

• Overall our basic editing at the beginning went fairly well.
• Due to planning in advance such as our story boards we knew what exact order the clips needed to be in ensuring no extra time was wasted.
• We also knew our time limit of 60 seconds so knew that it needed to be cut down as much as possible.