Editing Day 2

EDITING DAY 2

In todays lesson, my group began adding more scenes on such as the Scenes of the other 2 characters Cassie and Trevor. Luckily due to use organising the clips on our first day of editing it was alot easier to locate the clips we needed.It took quite sometime to make the clips flow smoothly, but we got there in the end. We also added the clips of the people who are mentioned in the voiceover of nadia which were things like "the asians", "the geeks" etc.While doing this we had to make sure we were not upsetting anyone and that we had explained the situation to them and gotten their permission before filming them.We used the slide effect of black and white this was to help demonstrate the types of people who would be found at a college without it being actually part of the main scenes. The black and white effects was an clever idea to put on as it shows this isn't the main focus of the story however could foreshadow what might later happen in the story if we was to make a whole movie.

In this lesson we also managed to insert the first part of Nadia's voiceover. Where she starts of saying "Dear Diary, it is 7.43am..." at the same time we showed the alarm clock with the exact same time as this is said. Putting on the voiceover at first I found slightly difficult as the noise from the actual clips kept playing out loud and I didnt know how to make this slient for the voiceover to be heard. After fiddling around with the sound a little I was able to turn the clip sound off and made sure that the voiceover was heard instead.

Some difficulties we faced with certain clips was that they were out of focus or the camera had jogged when we tried doing a pan. Therefore we again had to reshoot these scenes and it was time consuming. It is very fustrating with editing as the final preview of it has to be perfect. Although we had to reshoot some scenes we made space for them to go on the final cut pro and continued editing with whatever else we had shot.
With alot to do and such little time we had to make sure we were using the time we had effieciently or we would end up with an unfinished opening scene.
 

 

We could see our footage slowly coming together as an opening sequence and things were looking good. We started off from where we left off which had most of our scenes in order. This time Jakir had filmed Trevor's scenes in his bedroom, so we added his new footage onto the video drive. We then continued with editing all of our scenes. In Dan's lesson, we added the voiceover so we could fit in all the scenes which matched the script.

 

 

• Nadia looking tired, but hard at work determained to finish the opening sequence

In the voiceover, it talks about the different types of people in college and I thought that it would be a good idea to make the different shots black and white as they were not actually part of the whole opening, they were just quick representations of people in college. My group had agreed on this idea as they also agreed that it would seperate those scenes from the characters in the opening.
Overall feedback from Dan was that our editing and scenes were going well so far and he suggested that we also make an additional scene black and white to show the past of Maya getting bullied. So we decided to take on board that advice and use a pan shot of Maya sitting on the toilet writing in her diary to show her loneliness in her previous school.