Editing Diary

After a week of editing our second bulk of film footage, we found that it was much easier to construct on IMovie. This was due to the fact that we could easily drag and drop our footage from Quick Time Player (from the camcorder) to the IMovie application to edit.

In addition, the footage we had from our second filming day was much more interesting and varied in angles due to the fact that we had accurately thought about what angles we needed to add to make the film more engaging than edit 1. This, in turn, allowed us to edit the footage much easier. As well as that, we felt it made the fact that Ralph has impaired vision make more clear.

We managed to make the narrative much more clear in this second version of our film because of the way we edited it.

The first way we did this was by making sure that each piece of film was correct in relation to the time of day. By this i mean that in our original opening sequence we had pieces of footage later on in the sequence that were lighter (earlier in the day) than footage earlier on in the sequence (later in the day). This original footage made the film very confusing for viewers because of the changing backgrounds of lighting throughout the film. However, we were able to avoid this error in the editing process by arranging the footage coherently.

Next, we also improved our editing techniques by all contributing to the editing as a group. We did this through all taking turns at ending which meant we could all offer different qualities of editing techniques. For example, we quickly learnt that Ryan was much better at adding text credits to the footage than the other people in the group. In comparison, Harvey was better at using keynote in order to create the fonts we wanted and the transitions we wanted them to come up on the screen. Finally, i was able to offer a different quality to the editing process. This was the ability to make sure the footage was in the correct place in relation to the narrative we had planned via storyboarding.

Finally, we were able to add sound much easier to this version of the opening sequence. We did this by using the fade technique on the sound bar. This allowed us to smoothly add the diegetic sound over the top of the non-diegetic sound which meant the sound was much more fluent.