EDITING 2

Editing: Day 2

On our second day of editing, we made sure that everybody in the group was given a chance to use the software and edit a section themselves, so for the majority of this session I advised what my team members could edit but had less of a direct impact to the editing. 

We began by re-watching what we had already done, and immediately saw faults in it. I noticed that we needed to make the transitions fade slightly more, so we used the transition tool to improve this, which made the opening sequence look massively more professional, just by improving that subtlety alone. 

As a group we selected and uploaded all of the footage from day 2 of filming and discovered that we needed to alter the colour scheme of these clips. Because we wanted it to represent a 60's style camera and theme, we played around with the colour board until we found that we would lower the saturation slightly in order to create a warm and rose tinted filter, which we think portrays a 60's camera film. 

I also discovered how to use the reverse tool, and we swapped a clip and made it backwards so it fit better with its previous clip. When it came to adding in the flashbacks of the opening sequence I realised we would have to find a transition which made it clear that a flashback was happening, so we discovered the 'flash' transition which appeared as if a white light was what was switching between past and present. 

Lucy utilised the title sequences, by adding in a location, date and time to further emphasise that it was a flashback and not set in the same time so the audience don't get confused. Our fonts we have gone with for now are quite simple as we have realised we don't want our opening sequence to look cheap and unprofessional which is why we have gone with simple fonts for now until we find something more suitable and fitting to our research. 

Overall from this day of editing I have realised that we might need to re-film some footage as we have a lack of dialogue and shot types compared to what we set out to have initially. We, as a group, plan to get footage with some more dialogue and a range of shot types to improve our final product and make our editing much easier.