Editing Day One

  Here is a fast-forward screen recording of the three of us working on the beginning of our film. We split our time into thirds so that we all got an equal amount of editing done between us. Types of tools and things we learnt from this session:

• Retiming clips (1) for the opening shot to look busy and present the chaotic London atmosphere and for an interesting opening that engages with the audience whilst establishing the location distinctively. (2) to fast forward camera pan movements for a smoother effect;

• Colour changes that can be made to clips using the Color Adjustment tool;
• Transform/cropping clip for correct framing; 
• Detaching the audio and blending start and end of clips. 

However the biggest thing we learnt was understanding the importance of continuity and how difficult it is to construct shots together whilst keeping a smooth transition from clip to clip. Although we did well during filming to concentrate on continuity, without professional filming equipment it was always going to be very difficult to match shots exactly (for the match on action shots and shot reverse shots). Despite this I feel we have good shots and variety and we will be able to make our narrative flow through the process of 'trial and error' during editing.