Skills Audit: Editting

I found editting our final piece the most difficult. This is because we had to choose from many different clips and work with the ones we had (as there was no more time for fresh filming). We used Final Cut Pro which we had previous experience with, therefore, it wasn't too difficult to create the film.

One difficulty that we encountered was cutting our film down. The time it had to be was 2 minutes and ours was nearly 3! We then had to cut out any unnecessary clips and crop the clips that went on for too long. This proved difficult as in our eyes all the clips were necessary and the film would look bad without all of them present. However, once we took a few out we found that it looked much better shorter and some were not needed to make an effective thriller opening. When we cut some clips out we had to move the other clips on the timeline to remove any gaps in which we made. A problem which occurred with this was that the titles would have to be moved and so the transitions and effects on them would disappear. To fix this we would have to make sure all our alterations were done and re-do all the effects on the titles - a long process but had to be done.

Something I felt that went well with our editing was when we split the screen in half and played two different clips at the same time. This was to show that whilst the victim was locking their door, ironically, her stalker was walking past her house. We did this by over lapping two clips that we wanted to play together and cropping the right part of the image of what we wanted to see.

If we were to do this again, I would experiment more with the filters and perhaps add a black and white effect on the film to make it look more eerie. Also, I would use different transitions for the titles so that we could have more of a variety for the titles.