Preliminary task – Final Edit

24th and 25th January 2011

On the 24^th we had a double lesson; we had finished our filming on the previous lesson and are now ready to start editing our sequence.  We started by connecting the video camera to the computer to be able to upload it to “Adobe Premiere Pro” we then had a quick discussion as a group to what the best ways to edit it was e.g. did we want titles first what type of transitions we would us and even if we wanted transitions between each scene.  After this we made a start on editing, we firstly got each shot into order and named them as we thought it would make it easier to edit when we came around to. We then inserted each scene in its rightful place and watched over it; after we did this we cut most scenes as they were too long and took up time. An example of this is where in the original take Jake run up the stairs and opens the door; however in the next scene we see Jake opening the door and running into a corridor. We had to cut the first part of this as it didn’t look correct when watching it through. 

Once we finished this we looked at transitions we started by entering dissolves to blacks for most of the scenes, however we decide to use a cube spin for the phone scene we did this because we wanted to represent two things happening at once and we thought this type of transition accomplished this. Further though the editing process we asked for Mr Lane’s opinion on what we have done and he agreed with our decision on the cube spin, however he thought the constant dissolve to black’s weren’t thought out. So as a group we watched over the piece and decided that the constant dissolves made our sequence look amateur and represented a passage in time and we didn’t want this. We then deleted these too straight cuts. The lesson then ended.

Our next lesson in media was the 28^th, our previous tow hour lesson consisted of editing the main sequence, this lesson our group concentrated on the titles to our piece. We started at the end by writing cast within the piece and then writers and directors which were “I, Daisy, Tom and Ellie”. We then moved onto the opening titles such as the title “I’m sorry” and producer “21^st decade mongoose”. We chose the title “I’m sorry” due to the consistent repetition of I’m sorry in the last scene.