Editing Process.

After the half term, I started editing the clips together to make the final sequence. Me and Jez started it off and at first, I got a default timeline and chose the first clips. The first scene I put together was when Danny Smith walking down the corridor and noticing the poster about the 'experiment' that he got interested in. The clips were easy to put together because there are plenty of shots to choose from in this scene. For each part, we got at least 2 shots to make sure we have more to put in the timeline. We have noticed though, some sound problems. The ambient sound was not very good so we asked Marc to make a backing track from Garage Band that can be placed at the start. Other than that, the process of editing the first batch of clips were successful. At this time, continuity errors were no problem because all the shots (long shot to medium shot to POV shots to Over the shoulder shots) were filmed in sequence so we looked out at the continuity carefully.

 

The next part that we did was sequence together the scene where Danny Smith enters the room of where he drank the potion. When we filmed for this scene, we didn't get the ideal location that we wanted due to lesson being taught in all the rooms. Although we did not get the best location, we worked hard in getting the most out of this. First, I put together the clips till he drank the potion, but not when the earthquake happened. At this time, me and Jez encountered a problem. We only had 1 shot for when Danny drinks the potion and it was too long. So, to cut the clip we used a dissolve to make the clip shorter and much more interesting to watch. Rather than having a long and boring one. That was the biggest step that we had to encounter while editing the clip. Other than that, the editing and sequencing went smoothly and next time, I edit the last scenes of the opening.