Editing

The past 3 week we have been up in the Apple Mac room editing on Final Cut, we have previously used this software before as practise in the run up to A2 media. Our trial.
Using final cut is very confusing and we started off knowing very little about the software and had to read up from a booklet and it was time-consuming and many mistakes were made. Our first attempt at the film had to be scrapped because we were having serious problems stitching the film together and making it flow.
First Week
Choosing the footage to use was quite a simple task, we filmed over 150 videos so we had to watch all of them and sorting them out into categories of rubbish, maybe and definite. This took at least an hour an we ended up with many clips we could use and have many angles of the same scene which was very useful.
We then methodically put every scene in and left a 30 second gap in between each scene so we can mess around with each scene and once happy with the scene then move onto the next one. After week one we had only completed scene 1 and 2 as they are quite short scene.

Second Week
We continued to work through the scenes while also recording monologues which we would have in between scenes. We were initially going to have image over the clips but we ran out of time to film and it was essential to finish the film on time. During this time we had to decide what music we wanted over the top of the film. We used the site www.freesounds.org to download the music and Jack had some songs he had found elsewhere which we wanted to use. During this time we also wanted to try and create our own sounds using a piano and a tablet. However it turned out a lot harder than we thought as the sound quality was not good enough to use. We also had to do sound editing on the phone conversation between Sheldon Rex and Sylvia Freeman, which was hard and had to google the answer. By the end of the second week we had completed 3-9 scenes. However we knew the final scenes and the credits would take a while to do and then we had to make the movie flow via transitions.

Third Week
The final week and we knew we had a lot to do because the final scenes were the longest and the most important scenes so editing them would take a long time. We also done a lot of our sounds this week finding sound effects for guns, typewriter and phone calls, we needed to make these sound convincing so we had to trial and error a lot of the sounds. Also in this week we had to input our credits as all films need credits and to put our film company name on it. We had a preview of our film on the Thursday so we need to make sure we had time to export the film which takes a while so it had to be finished by the Wednesday.

The whole editing experience was a very long and hard process but eventually we had completed the film and I am proud of the finished product and if you compare it to the example earlier you can see I have made huge improvements in quality of work. Final Cut is very complicated but I definitely feel more confident work with the programme.