Editing Session One

On Friday the 15th of January we started our first editing session with a couple of goals in mind. Firstly we wanted to get the shots in an order that matches the mood board. Next we wanted to trim cut these shots down so that they aren't too long and to get rid of any speech that isn't part of the film. The final goal was to add transitions into parts of the trailer to add continuity and make the trailer a bit more suspenseful.

I started off by referring to the mood board and dragging the raw clips into the order we had visualised on the mood board. This was the simplest part of the editing although we had filmed some extra shots so that meant I had to shuffle around the order of some of the shots in order to make the trailer run smoother. During our audience research in the focus group we discovered that the audience preferred a trailer that was in non-chronological order to the feature film as they felt that this gave away less of the plot points than the chronological trailer we showed them (This Is England) so therefore the shots that we took are not in an order that would make chronologically sense in the feature film, rather they are in a non-chronological order that is meant to give the audience an idea of the plot but not too much.

After the group was happy with the order of the shots I began to use the blade tool to cut down the clips so they either weren't too long or that had speech before the action that was to be used began. This took up the majority of the session as I would blade the footage then replay the video to see if any further changes are needed because some shots cut too abruptly and some lingered too long after the action had taken place.
Once the cutting of shots was completed I then started to add transitions into the sequence. Most of these transitions are fades or cuts to where our font text will be but we also added a sequence of fades to one scene which we plan to add a heart beat in to build suspense.

Chris and James had to leave towards the end of the editing session so I finished off by adding slow motion effects to some shots whilst speeding up the glass bottle scene and workout scene because they were too slow to either appear realistic or be at the level of fitness that the character Shaun is supposed to have.

Since this editing seession we have returned to shorten the transitions and change some of the shots around because they didn't make sense in the order of the trailer or were adding unnecessary length.