Editing our footage 5

This was the last editing lesson before the half term and we had to ensure that we had created a completed draft sequence. We had completed the main of our sequence and so we used this session to edit fine details that would make a difference when watching it back. Before we started I showed the piece to Miss and as we watched it back I realised that it was very slow and therefore did not attract attention very well and so our first job was to solve this problem. I used the 'blade and arrow' technique to shorten the scenes so that they were of a sufficient length whilst preventing them from being too long. We also noticed that before the music was to be introduced, there was a lot of ambient sound that the camera had picked up during filming. In order to amend this, Beth selected the areas that needed lower volume and decreased the sound using the arrow bar. After this, I was able to import the music that I had downloaded onto my memory stick and place it into the sequence. It seemed to fit in very well and it suited our piece which I was very happy with.

 

Finally in this session, our work was again watched back by Miss and she recommended that we changed the order of the sequence so that it was easier to understand for the audience. I will go into more detail about this in my next post.