Editing 1 Cutting

Finally the bit that i have been looking forward to the most being the editor and finding it fun to do. Chase and I started doing the edit in a seminar. We had decided that the best way to approach it was to speed up the visual bits and cut out what we want and delete anything we didn't think we would use. The lecturer then came over to see how we were doing and said that he recommended cutting the audio first and laying it out so that it makes a story so we stooped cutting the footage from the studio and tried to cut the interview that we had recorded with the edirol but it was really quite and the sound quality wasnt very good, so we started cutting up the filmed interview. We basically were cutting out all the footage that was before he started answering the question and allot of the pauses or errs and ums which probably took up a good 10 minutes all together! This took about 2 hours to get the footage down to just the parts we thought we may use which was about 15 minutes long.

The rest of the group now joined later in the day and we started cutting up the footage of him painting the graffiti. First of all we set the speed to about 200% and then started cutting out all the shots we didnt want and kept which shots we all liked, if there were any that were unsure i put them too a differnt line on the video timeline. this took about another 2 hours again but we didnt manage to get it all done but had about 10 to 15 minutes of footage again.

I was quite pleased with our days work and had enjoyed starting the edit.