Blog Update: Editing (Transitions) 31.01.11

Today we have continued to edit as a group, focusing more on cutting our footage to the best we can and adding transitions. I looked closely at the editing of our main scene and tried out different cuts and transitions which could fit, to make it flow more where we had to cut some footage. For our main scene we filmed several versions of the same scene but in one, so when we edited it and did the shot reverse shot it meant that we was able to just cut in between and get an effective shot reverse shot. We experimented with many transitions, however once we looked at our examples of other opening sequences to dance films from our genre research, we realised that the majority didn't include many transitions. The one which our piece relates most to is 'Step Up 2' because they use a few transitions and the ones used are similarly to what we have used in our work i.e. zoom, fade to black and fade to white. Next lesson we need to carry on from where we left off.