Editing Catch up

Coursework- Editing Lesson 2

Today during editing we finished off darkening the footage so it looked like night time. We then trimmed all the footage we were using so you couldn't hear "role" or "action"in the shot and this made all the shots flow more and look more like a continuos film. 

During the lesson I learned how to create a split screen effect on iMovie and we used this for one of our shots to create a better effect. 

Next lesson, we still have plenty of editing to complete, including transitions and we need to do a voice over and add the credits in. 

Today in lesson we were told to focus on adding transitions to our opening sequence. To begin with we looked through our blog at our research on our genre, so we could get information on the kind of transitions that horror movie's use so we could stick to the conventions. Whilst looking through my research and also on youtube, my group agreed that the main transitions horror films stick to is cuts and fading to black. 

When we began to edit our footage we all took turns on the mouse so we all got to have a go at the editing stage. We added appropriate transitions to our footage, but we also left some as just cuts as we felt it looked more professional. As well as adding transitions we also decided to try and sort out the end bit of our opening sequence as none of us were happy with it. We managed to find out how to add audio from a clip onto a black screen and this was very helpful because it made the end look better. 

I feel like this lesson was very successful, and I am happy with how our footage looks so far.