Editors Journal
Once we finished filming all the footage the first time round I had some trouble with log and capturing the footage onto the computer as the tap that we had filmed on somehow mucked up and I was unable to log and capture footage that we needed to vary our shots and angles to get better marks. This meant that we didn’t have all the raw footage to work with which limited my resources to work with on our production. After having sir go though our footage and the basic narrative structure that I had produced it was agreed that we needed to re-film our production. We decided to get a new tape as we didn’t trust the old one. Once we re-filmed I was able to log and capture all the footage from the re-shoot and we had no complications while filming so the tape worked. I log and captured a lot of footage, so much that I had to delete footage from the capture scratch drive to capture it all. I used Final Cut Pro as the editing software to edit our production. Once I log and captured it all the footage I got the basic narrative done for the opening sequence and showed sir. We had two main problems, one the flickering effect that we wanted to include (which involved filming a scene with the demon in and them removing the demon and keeping everything very still so that I could dissolve between the two shots) didn’t look right because we filmed it handheld instead of on the tripod meaning that the camera moved and two the film was over three and a half minutes long. After I showed sir I removed all the flickering scenes and started to cut down the footage. I cut down the footage from 3:30 to 2:18. I was in constant communication with the rest of the group especially the director as I had to make sure I was creating the film she envisioned, we also kept in contact via social networking e.g. Facebook and Twitter and also text messaging. Once I had finished and cut down the narrative I started on the sound. I enjoyed integrating the sound as I could start to create suspense and tension in the film which our film needed for it to fit in the genre we picked. I found it easy to do this as the music fitted every scene in the film. What went well with the editing I feel was the sound and the getting the narrative done with all the new footage, I feel that the end product was good and although was not the preferred outcome I think it was the best outcome we could of produced with what we had. What went wrong was the scenario with the first lot of filming and the difficulty I had with retrieving the footage from the tape. I feel our production would be better if we had more close up shots and more POV shots to have a better narrative and also more time to adjust and tweak some bits. Time management was a bit of a struggle for me as in the beginning I was falling behind on editing and paperwork but as the weeks progressed I picked up the pace to get our video finished to a good standard in on the deadline. If I had the choice I would like to edit again as I’m not organized enough to be a director and I have no experience with film cameras, also I enjoy editing very much.