Role and Influence..

Having made a significant influence on the editing process i have decided to create a blog in the role i have played so far.

My primary role in our group has been director of editing at this stage in the project. As our group did the rough editing, sequencing our material and letting their skills develop as editors, i watched and assissted them where needed, though little guidance was needed after the basic skills were established, just help with sequencing the material was needed.

Now that basic editing has finished i have stepped in to help refine and dvelop our product into a professional looking piece, with the guidance recieved from Amar and utilising his thoughts and suggestions to help our product gain full marks. This has included colour corrections, changing the saturations of shots and adjusting brightness and contrast to create a stylised piece that will define our product. There is still titles and sound to finish, however as of today (9/03/11) the sound should be finished and will be ready to add to our product tomorrow.
 

Editing - What we have learned

The team have gained vast knowledge of particular editing areas which I will now discuss.

• We learned to add fade ins/outs to our opening sequence.

• We learned how to drag the clips of footage to the bar along the bottom therefore adding the selected clip to our sequence. 

• Another thing we learned to do is add a soundtrack from garage band and convert it to final cut pro.

• We learned to edit the colours within our sequence as Amar told us that this would be an improvement and so we took his advice and changed the colour pallet to make the colours more bold and have more layers.

• Our production has taught us to use finalcut pro in detail, and we have also learnt how to mix audio with visual, along with a lot of other things in this programme. 

• We also learned how imporant various things are in the production of this format of media. things such as continuity, getting sound accurate to the timing of the visual clips - things like that.

Thank you for reading xx

Jack...

... has JAZZEH shooes, nuff said

Amar's usefull feedback on our editing within our opening sequence production.

Amar came over to our group and gave us useful feedback from our opening sequence which we will now mention.

• Amar in his ultimate wisdom has decided that the characters within our opening sequence are difficult to perceive and that the relationship between the two characters is hard to establish. 

• Amar believes that are production is lacking in titles during the white noise parts of our opening sequence.

• Amar also mentioned that we could add more forest like scenes earlier on to set the scene right at the start instead of leading the viewing audience into misleading environment. 

• Another feature Amar suggested we could add to our production is an intense sound towards the end of our sequence to add to the thriller theme. 

• The last thing Amar said we should change in our production is that the colour in some scenes is very bland and could do with more drama, and so he suggests we alter the colours to make them more bold and add different layers to the colours. 

We owe many thanks to Amar for his wisdom. xx

Editing - 7th March 2011

Continuing our editing process, we have added all the fade in/out transitions which is good. We have also started on adding the soundtrack, which is happening as I type this sentence. The first soundtrack we have added is the white noise sound which accompanies the white noise that appears throughout out opening sequence. We also have added a soundtrack which the good people called Holly and Lucy have kindly put together on garage band which is great as it is fitting to our genre of political thriller.

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What We Did Today - 3/3/11

Today in lesson, Holly and Lucy started to edit the video, first we put all of the clips in the correct order so that we now have the basic outline set up, then we added in some transitions (Fade in Fade Out), and white noise, we tried to add in our soundtrack, but unfortunately this did not go to plan, so next lesson we need to try and overcome this problem.  Overall I think that the editing of our video is going well, and we should be on schedule to finish it by next Thursdays lesson (10th March).

Feedback Of Rough Cut

We uploaded a rough cut onto the blog, however this was quite rushed and we hadn't even finished putting all the clips together but we got this feedback;

• The White noise is too long compared to the actual clip
• Extreme close ups are used most often in the phone calls
• Characters wearing suits, mobile phones used, costumes suggest genre (Political Thriller)
• Jump Cuts are used, no transitions as of yet
• All diegetic sounds, dialogue over a phone call
• The Best thing is the dialogue - really clear

We got this feeback from Q1-07 (Saffy, Sam, Lynsey and Michael)