Editing

Our editing took a long time as our computer kept crashing every so often - sometimes before we had saved it which meant we would have to start over again. Once we got the hang of the editing programme and practised using it, it became easier. When we first began editing we didn't think we were going to have enough footage to make a 2 minute opening. So we filmed some more and added that so we had enough to make it last 2 minutes. One of the problems our group faced with editing was that because none of us attend the school where we are studying media studies, we didn't have as much time as any of the other groups and ran out of lesson time to really make the best use of the editing software as possible because we didn't have access to the software. Charlotte was able to stay a couple of extra hours to focus on getting the editing done which proved very useful.

We used a lot of transitions in our opening as we helped us avoid jump cuts. We often used fade to white/black many times because it best helped show the passing of time and looked suited the storyline and genre. Other edits that were used were cuts, fading in, slowing down the timings, music fading and music demanding.

The editing was more complicated than my group and I expected it to be but eventually got the hang of it and proved we could edit a piece of footage to make it look continuous. I am proud of our editing but I feel that with more time we would have improved it more and really made the best use of the software available.