EDITING

EDITING

I learnt to edit when I was in year 10 and my first project to do was to film and edit the sports day from my school. I did not know how to edit at all and saw it as really complicated. We used Corel Studio and me and my group leant easily to edit things as we played around for a while and rapidly got the hang of it. 

As the productions got harder it is consequently harder to edit as well because there are more details that we need to make sure are covered so the final result looks as better as it possibly can.

I must admit I am not the best at editing and this area of media is not one of my biggest strengths but over the years I learnt some useful skills.

This year my group and I used a different programme to the one we are used to work with. We decided this because the editor programme we used this year although being more complicated, is more professional and permits more changes to be done which were not possible to do as effectively in the other programme like for example colour correction. 

I learnt a lot from one of my team mates because he is more experienced with this programme and therefore showed the rest of us how to use it which I found really interesting because a lot of more modifications could be done and we could see the difference. 

First of all what we did was to eliminate the clips that were not going to be useful and keep the ones we thought had potential to be in the opening. It took us a while because some opinions within the group were different but we came to an agreement and settled for the clips we finally chose. Then we put all the clips in chronological order and then proceeded to cut the clips as there were some which were unnecessary if they were longer.

We re-edited everything as our fist draft could be improved so once we went filming the final time, we included those clips too and deleted other ones which we thought did not look as good. We had to film to have a wider range of shots and make it more interesting to the audience, offering more perspectives.