Tenth Day Editing And Class Critic

This was a two hour lesson. For the first hour we sat down as a group (the whole class) and watched each others opening sequences how there were so far. Some people's including my group opening sequence was not finished as there was still a lot of editing to do. We watched each others films and we wrote down on a sheet what we believed worked well and what they needed to improve on. This was very helpful for our group as we got to see what other people thought of our work so far as well as what we needed to improve on. At first our group had no confidence when it came to standing up in front of the class to explain our film and show it as we believed it would be probably really rubbish compared to the other groups work. However we managed to stand up and show what we had completed so far. By watching other groups work we soon realised that all of our work was roughly on the same level which was a great confidence boost for our group as we were happier with the work we had already complete. The class critic told us that we had some excellent shots for example when Liza opens the fridge to the camera and also the the camera is rested on the floor of the alley way and Liza walks past and is followed by the stalker. The group told us that we should improve on speeding up the pace Liza walks at when she is going down the alley way stairs, also to put the credits in between the point of view shots and also to sort out the music.

After the class critic we got to work on what we needed to improve on with the editing. Harry continued editing the heart beat soundtrack and transferred the soundtrack from memory stick to the group's computer. Meanwhile Myself and Carmen looked for a soundtrack, we eventually found one however took a while to do as we had to transfer an 4ma to an mp3.

I believe tenth day editing went very well as we added suspense music. But the class critic was especially helpful as it made me really motivated and want to carry on editing.

Ninth Day Editing

Carmen and me worked together to get all the shots together and in order in final cut. We managed to put all the house shots in order apart from one missing shot from over Liza's shoulder, as we had filmed this previously but found that the camera was too shaky. Therefore Carmen and Harry went off to another class room to re shoot this shot, whilst Myself and Harry carried on with the editing. Carmen and Alex came back after roughly 10 Min's and we uploaded the shot onto the computer, this shot was a lot better than the previous one we shot as it was less shaky and the shot of the phone was more visible.

Eighth Day Editing

For this hour we all worked together to use final cut and worked on editing the scenes, especially the alleyway scenes. In this lesson we managed to complete a lot of work which was good.

Seventh Day Editing

For this lesson we worked together to create the credits, although we did not manage to put the credits in our opening yet but will be hopefully be ding this soon. At the start of the lesson Harry finished the soundtrack and sounded really good, hopefully this will fit in well with our alley way scene.

Sixth Day Editing

This was a double lesson so he had 2 hours to do as much as we could. We worked together for the two hours, each taking a turn in using the mouse to use final cut, however we all put our input in when we was deciding on the editing. This session was good as we worked well as a team to communicate with each other, it went very well and we got a lot of work done.

Fifth Day Editing

On this day I worked don the credits whilst Carmen updated the group blog. Alex and harry finished the soundtrack together. I admit this lesson could have been more productive.

Fouth Day Editing

This was a double lesson so that meant we had 2 hours to get as much done as possible. Harry carried on with the soundtrack whilst Alex worked on final cut to put some more clips together. Whilst the boys were doing this Carmen and myself worked on the group blog to improve it. For the second hour myself and Carmen had a go at editing whilst Harry carried on with the soundtrack and Alex worked on the production logo. On final cut Carmen and me started to cut some of the shots and putting them together.

Third Day Editing

For this lesson Alex was working on the production logo whilst Harry worked on garage band to make the soundtrack for our alley way scene. However Carmen and I worked on final cut to get some of the clips together. Me and Carmen are good friends and it is good working with her as it means we can get a lot done between us.

Second Day Editing

In this lesson we all worked together to get as much editing done as possible. We came together to decide on sequences that should be added in and taken out. Overall this editing session went well and we were still getting used to the software.

First Day Editing

For our first day editing, we started of by using final cut however none of us were particular used to using this software, so it took us a while to figure out how to work it. Alex was the person who picked it up the quickest, he then showed us some of the tools we could used to edit, by the end of the lesson we had an idea of how to edit which was good. By beginning editing it was clear to see that it would take a lot longer than expected as it takes a long time. We edited a bit of our footage from when Liza walks out of the station and round into the alley way, it would have been nice to get a bit more editing done however as this was our first day editing we needed to figure out how to use the software properly.