Editing prelim task

In our last lesson, we were in the editing suite and used Adobe Premier to edit our preliminary task. We started off by looking through all of the takes that we made on the camera, in order to get an idea of what we wanted to use and how we wanted to incorporate the close ups into the sequence. We had decided on starting the sequence with an establishing medium long shot in order for the audience to get familiar with the setting and the action happening. It was very useful for us to have two screens, one was for what you have specifically selected and the other one was for the final product. We used the crop tool quite frequently, also known as the in and out. Throughout the process of filming and editing the prelim task, I have discovered that the editing part is definitely the most difficult and time consuming in the whole task. There were a couple of things that we would change if we had another shot at filming. For example, we found that we were missing an essential shot of the dead body as a full long shot. We thought that it would be quite useful to use it in the end of the sequence, as it would be a dramatic ending to the story plot. Another thing that we would have changed is that whilst we were filming we included the scenery at the top of the set. This was a very amateur thing to do, but we will not make the same mistakes throughout the year. I thought that this task enabled us to work jointly as a group and individually at the same time because everybody had their separate roles. Whilst editing the clips I had practiced my editing skills and reinforced the knowledge that we had learned previously.