Editing: Piecing it all together.

On Thursday after school Richard and I spent about 2 hours editing all the shots that we had into one bit of film. We didn't realise how long this really was going to take and we were surprised at the lack of material we had at the end of the 2 hours. We managed to add some effects to a couple of the shots and had a dabble with some transitions. After Thursday evening, we had around 50 seconds of film, which is nowhere near the set length of 2 minutes. We were slightly worried but did know that we still had some corporate building shots to film and edit.

On Friday I spent some more time on my own editing the film. I also filmed some of the buildings in and around Newport School, using a range of many different angles. The was also some panning, some zooming and some tracking. After capturing these onto Final Cut Express I edited them into one sequence, using fade transitions and slowing the speed to make the general feel of the film more dreamy, which definately added to the overall feel in the mise en scene. I also used a blur filter on all of the forest scene shots, as well as reducing the speed to about 80%, this really did make these shots seem like a flashback and there was the added perk of added duration. After all of this editing, the film came to about 1:40. This isn't bang on 2 minutes but with some more editing and some credits at the beginning and end it should be fairly suitable.

There is one day left to finish the film and hand it in. On that day all I need to do is add music to the film (which will be easy as the group has already decided on a suitable track) and to add credits, including the title of the film. Some of the ideas the group passed around were: "Flashback", "Chegwin Forest" and "The Lost and Found".

After the final hand in, we then have a week to complete our evaluation, and when that is handed in, everything is finished. I have enjoyed this task immensely, if there was anything I would have wanted to do better would be to have started filming earlier, and maybe choosing locations that weren't so near to where the classes took place (i.e. the office scene was a small classroom down the hall that we re-arranged). Other than that I think that the group has worked well together, even though at times it did seem like some members were doing a fair bit more than others, especially in situations like blog postings and arranging times for things to be done.