F.L - Reflection on Group Editing

Reflection on Editing

With our deadline approaching closer and the difficulty of trying to lip sync the music and footage becoming harder, we decided it would be appropriate for us to try and progress our editing at Harry's house (where he had the appropriate software).

We equally distributed the time and spent about one and a half hours editing each (in half an hour slots). This ensured that we had all contributed to the editing process, and it also meant that we could suggest ideas and make executive decisions easier because we were all focused on the editing (whereas at school two work on print and one edits).

We managed to complete the bulk amount of our editing, some techniques used were:

• Selecting the appropriate footage
• Dropping and dragging onto the timeline
• Cutting footage, using some intercutting
• Syncing the track to the footage lip synching

Once we had completed the basic process of editing, we then finalized our timeline, ensuring that all the lip synching was perfectly in time, that there were no gaps on the timeline and that we had a fast cutting rate.

We then began looking at after effects - as a group we looked at a range of visual styles and eventually decided upon the colour grading that we wanted to have on the footage of each line of action. Here are the alterations we made:

AL1 - We made the shadows darker by increasing the levels of blue and for the mid tones and highlights we made it warmer by increasing the levels of red.

AL2 - We made it brighter by increasing the brightness levels.

AL3 - We opted for a dark look, firstly we put a vignette filter around the edges quite softly, we then increased the levels of blue on all layers, and decreased the brightness and contrast slightly.

We edited together our group discussions and put them into a video: