Today brought the first day of editing meaning we had to recoup some of the things we learnt at the very start of the school year when editing our pre-lim's. We started by putting our footage into a newly created 'rush bin'. We then simply sifted through all of our footage made an assessment of clips we were likely to use and put these into the 'log bin.' Now our footage was organised we set about editing. We initially made an extremely rough cut by following our storyboard and putting everything we were certain would be in there, in an order that we could predict. This gave us a very long film but at least an idea of the direction it would take. From this we could then cut, move, and delete clips to form a more realistic cut.
Some little tips we picked up from our first session in the edit suite was that clips should be introduced at the last possible moment and cut from at the first possible moment. This stops the film from dragging and becoming boring. We found it amazing how much difference cutting a few seconds off can make a difference. We are now excited for the next session and picking some real momentum with our edit.
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