Editing session: 14/02

I feel this Editing Session went well, as we were able to edit the first 40 second in and put the footage in the right position making it look as smooth as possible.  This will make the project move forward and then we will be able to move onto the next task. We managed to put the titles in over the top of the footage, which was our main aim. A difficulty we had was changing the footage to black and white within the post-production stage of our project, however we re-evaluated what we were doing and managed to work out how to change the footage’s colour. We had a lot of footage so the difficulty we had was choosing the right shots to use, it was helpful to have variety to choose from, so therefore this reinforces the fact that our filming was good as we had plenty of shots to work with. Therefore we learnt from this editing session that the more increasing number of shots you have makes it easier in the post-production stage when editing as you have more choice.

In the editing stage of the post production, we changed the second shot at the beginning as we feel this is an improvement to our opening. We were initially going to track over the dead bodies on the stair case and then cut to the flashback, however after re-evaluating this with my peers we have decided to go straight into the flashback and use a ‘dip to black’ to show the body at the end. This means that the action will start right at the beginning of the opening, catching the audience’s attention and enhancing the quality of our opening.