Editing Prelim

15.10.2014

Editing the Prelim

Upon filming the scenes that we needed for our prelim we were then asked to go and edit them together to form one flowing sequence.  I was paired up with Lauren and the other three who were initially in our group went together.

The software that we used was called Adobe Premier, a new program that the school had only just gotten so we were some of the first to try it out.

To begin with we had to arrange the shots that we took into a Rushes File, we then watched all of the shots and named each shot accordingly, so that when we went back to find the ones that we wanted to use we didn't have to look through all the clips each time.

We then had to set up a new folder called 'Log Bin' and in this file we took and copy and placed all of the shots that we wanted to make changes to and use in in the final sequence. We took copies of the ones that we wanted to use so that we still had all of our originals just in case we needed then at a later date.

Considering that neither Lauren or I had ever really done any editing before we managed to get quite a lot done in the time that we had.  We still have quite a bit left to do but what we have thus far we are very happy with.

I personally found it very difficult to put the clips together as when we attempted to put two different clips into one sequence sometimes the sounds in each wouldn't quite match up.  But, after attempting a few different ways to try and make it match, we made it sounds alright in the end. Apart from the problems with the sounds we didn't come across too many other problems in our first attempt.

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