Editing Rushes

Firstly, as we had a lot of different clips it was important to organise them into bins (folders), so we filtered them into scenes and days so that we could easily find the clips we wanted. This saved time as it became easier to edit knowing where everything was.

Another thing we had to learn to do was how to speed a clip up so that it fit in with the editing pace, as sometimes they looked better when the action is played faster. For this we increased the speed by a percentage (which you can see above) and did this on the actual timeline rather than the clip, which made it easier to change if we needed to.

The hardest thing we had to learn was how to create a split screen, as it was really tricky to get it perfect. For this we had to place one clip on top of another and then crop/resize the image so that they both could be seen. Above is a picture of us re-sizing the images and moving them so they are the same size and are next to eachother.

Above is the finished split screen and you can see in the time line that one image is placed on top of the other to create this.

We also used a lot of cross dissolve transitions to blend images and link scenes to make the narrative clearer.Tthis was relatively easy, as you selected the two clips and added the transition between the two. You could then adjust the speed and time that you want it to take by clicking on it and dragging it to how many seconds you wanted.

At the end we wanted to desaturate the image and make it dull to show that something had gone wrong and emphasise this as the sad part of the video. To do this we went to effects, then video filters, image control and then desaturate. We could then decide how much colour we wanted to take out and this created a really good effect in the video.

Here is just a shot of the timeline and as you can see it has multiple different clips within it to make the cuts in the video quick and entertaining. This was also helpful as we could cut to the beat and effectively get the syncing perfect so everything was in time and looked proffesional.