Account of editing process

When it came to the process of editing in our production we had to use the technology in a much more advanced way than in our preliminary task.
It started off the same, by simply logging all the bits and pieces, however there were so many more that this was hard work. Naming them all in a different way even though most of them were the same wasn’t easy either.

Then we started to delete the ones that were unnecessary however it was difficult as well, because some shots looked great but the sound wasn’t good enough, for example the screaming bit, and some were bad, but the sound was great. Therefore we needed to keep those as well, to edit them together later.

When we got into our next stage, we had to put those bits and pieces onto the timeline in the order according to the storyboard. When we finished that, we had to cut it together so it looked smooth and the timing was right.
The next step was to add the sound.

First of all we started to make sure that in none of our shots you could hear anybody say anything like “cut” or “action”. Then we looked which noises we already had and figured out the ones we wanted to add. Then we cross-cut them, for example we took the shot of Alabama, but the scream from another shot and added another scream we found in the sound library on our apple to make it effective.

When we finished this, and added our noises such as footsteps and wind, we started off putting in the credits.
We didn’t want the names to just arrive, and therefore we made them fade in and fade out using the given programme. Matt showed and explained how to do it and then we applied it to our process. We put the titles in, in the right order as they should appear and took the names we made up before in our media folder (e.g. – a milano production).

As well as this we gave them a meaning, for example the actors names arrives when he walks into the shot etc. however we couldn’t make all of them fit, but we made sure they are in the right place, not disturbing the picture and you could read the text 3 times quickly.
We finished by checking the whole sequence looked good and fixed the last problem, which was that one shot gave away that we were filming in the studio. Therefore we changed the frame size and it looked good again.