Second Editing Session

During this session we managed to finish editing our prelim. I worked with Crerer and Victor to create the final cut of the prelim. We continued to drag the clips into the timeline, cross cutting between the medium shots and the close ups of each character to form a sequence that flowed without the viewer noticing the cuts. The main problems we faced were associated with the sound. On some clips, the audio from one character overlapped, leaving us with an unclear repeat of the same line. In order to solve this we had to cut the sound from the first clip early, and replace this with background noise, leaving only the line from the second clip.
When the sequence was cut together we decided to give our prelim a more professional look. We did this by cropping the screen at the top and bottom to make a more cinema like ratio, also known as adding letterbox. We then added a fade at both the beginning and the end, so the sequence opened and closed softly instead of a harsh opening cut. Finally we added the text with our names and our prelim was finished.
Overall i think it was a very successful prelim. If i were to have a second attempt at this I would ensure that when filming, the actors left slightly more space in-between their lines, or ensured that each time they delivered them, they did it the same. This would solve the continuity errors and sound errors that were unavoidable in the edit. However despite these slight errors, the prelim looks professional, and flows smoothly. Having made many films before I believe that this was a very easy task and I look foreword to creating something even more challenging.