Pre-lim Edit - FinalCut Pro
Today we edited the footage we shot last week for our pre-lim continuity task. We used the software Final Cut Pro, which I had used before but quite a while ago, so it took a few minutes to readjust.
The aim of the task is to produce a seamless piece of film with perfect continuity, and to also get to grips with the cameras and equipment. When filming we took each shot about three or four times so it was likely that all the shots would fit together somehow. We payed special attention to the walking patterns and made sure no one was magically further down the hall than they should be.
I had used Final Cut before and so knew all the controls and how to upload the video. I felt comfortable editing and helped the others in my group who hadn't used it before. I think it was good to do a task focusing mainly on continuity because in the past, although I had always considered it, I had never payed so much attention to detail. We found hat just the slightest tweaking of a shot could make the who piece run more smoothly and look a lot more polished.
We were happy with our final piece and felt it had good continuity. It was nice to be able to edit things that we didn't like when filming for example, the sound levels changes in different shots, so we evened them out. I think we could have changed the shot to her face when she said 'wait', because that was quite a climatic moment and it would have been more dramatic to see her expression.
Prelim Task User 3 from BDC on Vimeo.
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