Diary Post 6: First attempt at Editing

This was the first lesson where the editing process began. We started to edit our film in school using the iMac, therefore enabling us to use iMovie. We were able to go through our raw footage and pick out the most successful parts. We firstly began by picking apart the footage, choosing the most important parts to include them in our opening and then using them as a format to work around them. One of the most important parts, I believe was where Anna/ the main character falls over which then leads to the flashback (which we are planning on doing very soon as the set/ scenery is indoors, therefore being completely different). Another part which I think is very important, is the ending with the car, for this we are planning on having quick cuts between the car and Anna running in/towards the road and a sound effect of the car over it to create intensity. This session/ lesson in the editing room was not only used to plan out which footage was in fact best to be used, but it was also used for learning and trying to become a bit more confident with iMovie. This included, playing around with the transitions we planned to include in the two minute opening of our film, sound effects and inter-titles. During this lesson we were also able to download from YouTube the opening production company, which for our film we chose to be Tri-Star as they appear to produce films we having using as inspiration. Once downloaded, we then trimmed the clip to the appropriate length, as we didn't want it to be to long yet we wanted it to appear fluid and smooth as a whole, we trimmed it down to around 7 seconds. This helped a lot as it brought hints of a professionally put together film. After working on the introductory logo footage of Tri-Star we work on the were beginning of our opening, which we wanted it to be sounds of the natural environment in the forest while also bringing a visual element to it. We wanted this to be calming in order to create a clear contrast between what was actually going on in the transitioning scene. In order to compliment our storyline, we had to edit/add an effect on top of our raw footage as it was a bit too bright due to the weather when we filmed, we used iMovie to make it a bit darker to not only link with the storyline but also make it clear to the audience that the protagonist is in a very isolated, dark situation.