Editing Session: 1

This editing session took place on the 15th of January after school between 15:00 - 17:00pm.

Being our first editing session we first of all needed to put our footage onto the Mac and open it in Final Cut Pro, creating a new project where we can drag and drop all the shots into a timeline. We previously already uploaded the majority of the footage on Wednesday, however we still needed to film one more shot, which didn't take long, it was just that we had to wait for the actor to have time to film.

Sam Warren began editing by putting all the raw footage in non chronological order as this is the chosen method we decided our trailer would be in, showing different parts of the narrative all jumbled up. We chose to do it this way as it follows the conventions of most British Film Dramas and doesn't give away too much of the films narrative, being sure to not ruin the experience. Once all of the shots had been placed in the order we chose in the storyboard I then started adding transitions between the scenes to make it seem more smooth and fluid between them, instead of just abrupt cuts.

James thought it best that we place the title screens on at that moment in the correct positions in default text until we have completely decided on the font that we are going to be using, so it is quicker to change the next time we wish to alter it.

Sam finished off the session as me and James needed to leave for personal reasons, by editing the sound on some of the shots and cutting moments out where we were directing. Some of the points where we were directing have not been cut out as it involves acting in the shot and we are going to place music going over the ambient sound anyway.