Editing the Movie

This is Mary and I editing our movie on the IMac. We had to use many techniques in our project to make it what it is. We learnt how to make sound effects to how to merge a cropped shot with an uncropped shot. We had to surge through many problems to get the finished project. We had continuity errors which needed sorting as well as diegetic sounds which weren't loud enough.

The camera we used to film our first scene was a new camera to the school. It didn't use tapes like the ones we were used to. This made it difficult to upload the footage as it required a different technique. We managed to do it after some time exploring the camera and were now ready to start editing. We had decided early on that we wanted the credits to cut through the action. So all we needed to to on that was pick the style we wanted. We decided on a very simple design with the names in the bottom right hand corner. This was very similar to our story board. We wanted the letters to be more spaced out as we felt it looked more horror genre themed. We then went through our footage and rejected all the bits we didn't like and were certain we weren't going to use. As the filming was done in chronilogical order to get the best light, it wasn't difficult to choose the shots we wanted and to put them in our project. After the we had the shots and credits in the right order we started to be perfectionists.

We came to our first problem when our best shot had a continuity error. We were determined to use the shot as it was by far the best. The shot from the antagonist's point of view we realised that I was wearing trainers when I was suppose to be barefoot. Instead of changing it we split the clip where the error was and cropped it so the error was out of the shot. We then had to merge the split clips together.

Our next problem, the twig that got snapped on the day of filming wasn't loud enough so we had to record over it with a twig we snapped in the media room. We then realised the scream on the footage cut out before it was finished, so we had to record a scream over the microphone as well.