Editing Session 3

Today in our media lesson we carried on with the editing process for our trailer which was continuing with the work we were completing in the past editing sessions which was dropping the correct shots into place onto the time line. However in today's lesson we noticed that some more shots were missing again therefore we looked on Kayleighs iPad and iPhone for the specific shots which were missing and then directly imported them onto the iMacs which we then used.

In todays editing session we decided to begin cutting some shots down as in previous sessions we had just been placing and arranging the shots so excess footage was left alone. I used the blade tool to cut some of the shots down which meant us watching the shot and then I determined which section on the footage should be cut. Also some shots had background noise which was a problem however I detached the audio from the actual shot and then deleted the audio so when we watched the shots back the audio was no longer a problem.

One part of the film trailer where we changed was the bath scene because Amber suggested including the shot of the windows where the artificial lighting flickered and placing it between the shot Amy in the bath, so therefore we bladed the camera shot so we would then have two seperate camera shots and then placed the flickering light footage between the two however it was difficult to refine the bath footage to when Maddie's eye looked up as we wanted the character to look up at the window to make it look more effective and realistic.

Another problem we encountered was when we replayed the entire sequence we noticed that some shots didn't seem like they were in the correct place, for example one shot of Maddie and Elliot shouting was immediately followed by a shot of Elliot whispering which looked out of place therefore we discussed a solution to the problem between the group and decided to move the whisphering shot further along in the trailer which actually worked more efficiently as it helps build up tension and suspense.