Blog Update: Editing 25.01.11

Today we continued editing our work on iMovie and here is a screen grab to show some of the editing that was completed. We began to look at transitions but focused more on cutting all our footage to the appropriate lengths and we cut our shot reverse shot. During this editing we realised that the voiceover was longer than we wanted it to be and this caused problems with our timing, because the whole thing has got to be a 2 minute piece. With our voiceover over 1 minute we had to add in extra footage of the dancers at the beginning to fit with the voiceover. Even though we had more footage after the voiceover, which was our main scene, we couldn't start it without the voiceover finishing,s o we had to work around this, trying to keep as best in the time limit as we could. We also adapted the colour to the footages that appear, while the voicer and music is playing, to black and white. This is because having the colour in black and white gives the impression that it's showing flash backs and past moments, which is what we were looking for. By the end of todays double lesson all our footage was rough-cut and we had everything in order to start editing in more depth next lesson.