When editing our preliminary task, I found that the editing was pretty simple and the clips were nice to work with. I had never used Pinnacle Studios before to edit with and did encounter a few problems when editing. At the beginning and end of our preliminary, I wanted a fade to go in to show it was ending rather than the audience expecting the conversation to proceed on. On Pinnacle I wasn’t able to find out how to do the fades along with the hour I had to edit the clips.
I took our edited piece of work home to add fades and music with a different software I was a little more familiar with. The fades in my opinion worked well and did what I wanted them to do. I googled non copyrighted music and found a good website. The website had over 100'000 songs so I went for the first one I came across, which worked pretty well with our video.
The Match-on-action was fun to do, as seeing our video come together and flowing well was a good sign. The match-on-action was effective as it was almost as though we used 2 cameras to film with, one, one side of the door and one the other side. The cuts were successful and us as a group were pleased with them.
There is one part which we were quite disappointed with and that was when 'Tom' was about to sit down. He walked into the room, went to sit down as he was still fidgeting, it cut to him sitting perfectly still. If watching for the first time as an audience, it would possibly go un-noticed, but if being watched by critics, it was very noticeable. We learnt from this as we now know if we are going to have a cut, we cut from where we left off, and possibly look over the clip before filming the next clip.
By Charlie Head
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