Progress of editing

For the past couple of lessons, Bronte and Jess have been capturing and editing our footage onto Final Cut. To begin with, our main aim was to primarily ensure that we picked the shots of our footage that were most successful and placed it in the correct order onto Final Cut, so that we could see the final look and order to work into. It was important to ensure we had a rough idea of the timings of our work as meanwhile Lewis has been gathering ideas and working on our soundtrack for our opening on Garage Band, therefore he needed to have some knowledge of the timings of each part of our opening.

Once Bronte and Jess had initially put our footage in the right order and made the narrative clearer, we then focused on the more creative aspects of our work. So far Jess and Bronte have been on Final Cut looking at the types of things we could use and have been experimenting to see what works most effectively to suit the conventions of a thriller. At the very beginning of our footage, we added slow motion to make it slow and more gradual. We have added some transitions to our work to make the movement from one clip to the next flow more casually and less sudden, unless we wanted it to for effect - we added a transition that made the footage more 'jumpy' and sudden to our credits. Luckily, Jess managed to find a feature on Final Cut which allowed us to quieten the sound of the traffic in our footage, which meant that the sound wasn't as loud and made our sound quality better.