LO3: Evidence of Editing

This video shows the group all helping to create an offline edit for our short film. Because this was our first time looking through all the footage we had to go through all of the individual clips and decide which we could use. It was important that we focused on keeping clips that would help to construct the film's narrative and that we removed any bad takes or faulty clips.



In this video Maddie edited the clips to ensure that the narrative was ordered correctly. In order to make the film appear more professional she had to use a stabiliser on the clips and cut the clips together to make the film more interesting and create spectacle. What Maddie found difficult here was linking several clips so that the audio crossed over seamlessly, to do this she had to unlike the sound clip from the video clip and perfectly time the cuts between each clip. Due to our location some footage didn't turn out the way we had hoped, some clips were out of focus and had to be abandoned completely for example.




This screenshot was taken whilst Maddie edited the end scene for 'False Awakening'. You can see that the amount of cuts begins to increase towards the end of the film, Maddie did this to increase the amount of tension in the final scenes and ultimately I think it worked well.




For this edit we began to work toward creating a final version of the film, which included adding the extra footage that hadn't yet been used. I added all the titles in this version and added effects to help those title fit the style and genre of the film, I also added atmospheric shots that would reinforce the genre and edited the film's music with natural sounds we had recorded such as rushing water and bird sounds.

 This screenshot was taken as I lined up the final versions of the titles with the video clips and sound.



In this recording Maddie completed the film's continuity and tried to create more of a shot-reverse-shot structure


  In this video Maddie worked on adding extra sound effects in order to creater a greater sense of verisimilitude.

In a final, unrecorded, edit I edited the music towards the beginning and end of the film to line up better with the titles. Maddie added in sound effects of the woodlands with more eerie music to enforce the genre and I also made the animation for our production logo line up with the music to create more spectacle.