Evaluation Of Editing

After the stressful shooting we thought we were going to have a little break before we went back to anything regarding our thriller. But we were so wrong. The following week we had to start editing our thriller and a whole different task had found its way to us.

Firstly we had to watch all the shots we did in all the different angles we shot in. Fortunately for us we only had 4 different shot and 1 of them was the title sequence shot. As opposed to our other classmates in other groups who had 8 shots and more. So we thought we did not have that much to do. But we were very mistaken.

We had a lot of tracking shots and they were all very long and we had to watch them over and over again carefully to identify any errors that could prevent us from doing a good job with our final editing cut. But after we picked the best one and cut out a few glitches it was going downhill with the rest of the editing. The other shots we did were easy to put into the timeline because all our options were going so we could not really go wrong with the ones we chose.

Everything was going smoothly but just like the great editors in Hollywood we encountered some minor setbacks. Because all of us in our group were not used to editing we made some rookie errors when we had to cut and paste footage but later on we got better at that. Then our sound gave us some problems because in the cuts we chose some of them were not pasting onto the timeline with their sounds. But we didn't panic we made sure we got it right after a couple of tries.

after we smoothed out our transitions we had to smooth out the volume because some scenes were louder then others when everything was meant to be the same volume so we needed sharp ears to make sure we got it right which we later on did. After all we had left was to put in the credits into the opening sequence and this took patient hands which Only matt Flynn could display. We had to go through different fonts and choose the ones that would make our clip look like a thriller and we had to choose one that actually fit the mood of our thriller and that required a calm mind and patience.  As all of us got fed up when we made the smallest mistakes eventually Matt got us out of the dirt and finished up the credits and we believed we were done.

However we all felt like there was something missing because the tracking shot and opening sequence were so long and quite we thought that it would make our audience bored really wick because nothing happens in the tracking shot and opening credits sequence. So we thought and thought then I came up with a solution I gave the idea of putting music into the thriller and then we all agreed on it. The only question was. What music are we going to use ? It was then up to me to find good music that flowed with everything that happened in those clip. Although we originally planned on it being silent with no music and words we decided to change it up and give our actress Lynn 1 line and add music.

I went through about 20 different albums searching for good songs then I ended up selecting 10 different songs from 3 of the albums I listened to. I picked:

Burlesque and Beyond
Candy
and an Exotic lounge album

I then showed my group members all the tracks and we listened to them together and ended up picking the first track from the first album which was Burlesque and Beyond track 12. we then tried to drag it onto our timeline but the format was different so we had a dilemma. Fortunately for us I have experience in ICT so I was able to change the format of the song and export it to our timeline we then cut some parts out and made the music blend with our shots and we chose this music because it gave that sort of seductive feeling the opening part of our clip is meant to have and then we put it in along with all the other background noise soundtracks that we recorded on the day of our shoot. Now we are done putting things onto the timeline all we have to do is make sure everything goes smoothly and correct the smallest errors to make sure we can pick up all possible marks.

And we hope that our hard work gets recognised and we get the marks we deserve at the end
 if the day