Second Editing Lesson - Finishing our prelim.

On thursday 3/10/13 we had our final lesson of editing our prelims on Final Cut Pro. In this lesson we continued to do as we did in our last editing lesson, and once we had selected all of the raw footage that we wanted in our final cut and dragged it down, we watched it through and tried to smooth it out by fixing the small things that were wrong such as the audio being slightly out of time with the video.

As we edited the final thing, we made sure that there were no gaps between the blocks of footage that we had put next to each other as these result in a quick black screen before the shots transition into one another. 

One thing that we had to debate about was how long the gum should be shown for, as if the shot of the gum on the table is too long, the viewer may loose interest, but had it been too short, the viewer may not know what it is. I think that in the end we managed to trim it down to the right amount of time.

At the end of our prelim in the final shot, there was audio of me shouting 'cut!' so we had to cut out the audio from the final shot and replace it with audio from another take that we had shot, I thought that this was quite a good idea.

In conclusion I am quite pleased with the outcome of this prelim, I think that the main thing we did which  makes it work is the sense of continuity, by making sure all actions begun in one shot are finished in the next to produce a close to seamless edit.