Editing 1: Playback and review session

We have reached the editing stage and we have lost 2 members of the group. Now it is simply down to just  Ben and I. I am not sure how I feel about that as I am not sure how good my editing skills are and it being the two of us we will be doing about 50% of it each. This means that I will be doing a lot in this stage. If we had the 4 of us it would've been much more split up, however, I am not to sure how easy it would be trying to split the job and different ideas and also I don't think Rashad and Charlotte were too keen on the editing stage so perhaps it isn't going to make much of a difference anyway.

For the first editing session I wasn't actually In the lesson but Ben has informed me of what he did:

He started editing the post production side of filming taking what we had filmed and then turning it into a product conveying what we want to show in our chosen media area such as film. It was the first time we are doing any editing since October with our Prelim task so he was given a brief re-cap on Adobe premier and the basics i.e. cutting and using the razor blade tool. I got this recap when I joined him on this second session. The way adobe premier works is that you have your rushes down the left hand side which you can then drag into your time line and cut into an order giving you your project that you are editing the screen on the left is what you have selected and then the right screen is your whole project. After this brief intro he then got all of our rushes into order and cut them to size according to what we could use i.e. cutting out any moments of background talking or when we said 'cut' or 'action'. After he moved them into order on the timeline as shown below in a video this was divided into person, specific moments, band or outside. This will make them useful when we begin to cut because we will known where they are making them easily accessible. From first look there were no nasty surprises from our shoot day and some shots have turned out better than originally thought.

                       

He mentioned reviewing and selecting shots we could use in the sequence and make it easier for us to put the shots together, otherwise we would have to constantly be finding the best bits of each shot when we want to use them, then cut them etc. so by doing this it just makes our lives so much easier when it comes to proper editing.

When we put the clips onto the time line it was important to name and re-name clips so that we could group the different musicians and their different shots so that when it comes to putting it all together we will be able to just easily decided how long we want to see the different musicians and also the different close ups and medium long shots. We were told that if we were to show a musicians face close-up, it wouldn't make sense to go straight to another musicians body close-up because the audience would get confused and would assume that body was the previous persons face, so we had to be careful of this. Another thing we were told to look out for, In the music practise bit, was changing the shots in time with the beats of the music. This would just make that section more slick and more effective.