Editing
Tom Peacock
Much like any film certain decisions will have to be made in terms of how we decide to edit our thriller opening. Certain decisions we have to make could be, which clips we will use, increasing/decreasing the brightness to create affect and how we will edit, e.g transitions and how quick the cuts will be.
In this document you will firstly see some of the tools we used to edit on final cut and then also how we edited and the decisions we had to make while editing.
Below you can see myself naming the clips we imported into final cut. By doing this we found it much easier to find the clips we needed and to also work out, which clips we had already used and also which clips we had yet to use.
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Clip list on Final Cut ProTools |
As well as this, below you can see us using different editing tools to help cut our film. The main tool you use on this software is the cut tool, which is shown highlighted here. You also use the tool at the top, which is used to drag and move clips around the editing timeline. These are the main tools we used throughout the editing to help us make sure our thriller was good.
The timeline, as shown below is also a standard feature on Final cut pro. This timeline was useful to us because we could drag our clips onto it and then preview them on a separate box on final cut without having to transfer them to the media player on the macs. You can also use the menu on the left to mute audio or change the audio level.
Editing Decisions
The first editing decision we had to make was to alter the colour contrast on one of our clips as it was a bit too dark to use. We could've either left it as it was, making the quality suffer or we could've altered it and improved it, meaning quality would improve. To do this we used the colour correction tool, which is inbuilt into final cut to help alter the balance of colour on the clip. This was a decision made as a group and therefore is an editing decision.
Another decision we had to make in terms of editing as a group was
At this point you are in danger of falling behind.You have 7 days to editing deadline. You still need to film a lot of material.
ReplyDelete1. Re film the scene in the interview room. It is too dark, lacks variety of shot distance and MoA.
Experiment with lighting - do a dry run beforehand where you experiment filming without costume just to see how to achieve the effects that you desire. Film yourselves doing this and commentate on it and upload to your blog.
Do you think that you have enough footage in the woods - all together you require 2 minutes which is a lot (probably around 40 shots).
In the interrogation scene, you need to think about the storyboard - have more close ups and extreme close ups and think about MOA opportunities. Don't break the 180 degree rule.
A lot of work for all of you next week - make sure that you all commit and don't let each other down or you will be heading for disaster. Need to look at a good 7-8 hour shift next week. TALK TO EACH OTHER!
Nothing has appeared for along time. What about evidence of your filming and your editing? Where is it? Sound editing evidence, decisions made discussed etc.
ReplyDeleteYou are throwing away easy marks by not doing this.