Editing!

The next lesson after my filming was complete, I was able to start uploading my footage. Doing this took itself nearly an entire lesson, as I had to connect the camera to the Mac, which took several attempts due to a few dumb moments, the footage then had to upload and after that letterbox. When filming I had ensured that I had plenty of footage to work with, so that I did not find that I did not have enough. This meant that all this footage which would then be edited out had to upload also, and this took a lot of time.

I could first start making proper decisions and editing my piece in the next lesson. The first thing I had to do was to put my piece into black and white. However, this proved difficult, as the simple 'black and white' effect that was already available on the Macs, did not give the effect that I was looking for, and I was disappointed that I would not be able to create the effect that I had envisioned in my mind. To try and overcome this, and to get nearer the image I wanted, I had to fiddle and adjust the colour settings on the screen. This ended up taking up a lot of my time, as I had to do this for every different shot I had filmed, as the lighting was different in each location and angle, and I did not want there to be too much of a harsh difference in each shot. It was at this point that I was thankful that I had filmed earlier than everyone else, and this set back did not leave me behind the rest of the class.

When making cutting decisions, and adding certain effects and transitions, I had to make very careful decisions as to what effect I wanted to created and how best to do this. I had to consider this for every decision made, and my reasoning for my choices will be explained in greater detail in my evaluation once my editing and film is complete.

I was fortunate in the sense that I faced few major problems when editing, and did not end up making any crucial errors or losing any footage. It took a few attempts to entire get used to using the editing tools, as I was now doing much more advanced editing than we did in our first artefact.

I found editing a lot easier and quicker once I had learned the keyboard shortcuts, such as delete, which as a lot simpler than dragging things into the bin

I am now halfway through my editing, I have edited all the footage I want, and just need to add my music, and record Alex's voice to read my letter, then I will add it to my film and make any suitable adjustments to fit the music.

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