Editing update 06/02/13

Due to absence, I have been working on my own while editing.  I have discussed and made decisions with Becky on what we are planning to do with the rough cut and effects.  I have scheduled to come back in my spare time, after school and during school in my free periods as I missed out on a lot of opportunities to edit due to illness.  I feel that i have made a big difference to the editing in the past few days as i have been able to edit as much as I can.

   Today I came across a problem with the brightness in one of the shots we took.  The problem was that the shot (left) was too dark to see the lip synch.  To improve this I went to Filters and changed the brightness and contrast so that it wasn't too bright but enough to see that the actor is lip synching. I am aware that that clip will stand out from the rest of the video so I am planning to add an effect to it when i come to adding them.

    Throughout editing I had noticed that I kept having the same problem of the clips moving out of synch with the music when I had already placed them there when i was working in-between them. So to remember where it is in synch i put a marker there. This is when i lined up the start of the clip pressed M on the keyboard and a green marker appears on the bar.  This made it much easier as i could just highlight the chorus for example and line it up with the marker, and it is in synch again.

      Because I have been editing on my own I asked Kirstie from the other half of our group to look over what i have done so far and give me a second opinion about it.  I found this useful as she pointed out a very obvious and valid point which has helped me a lot.
As you can see from the first screen shot that is a clip from the beginning of the video.  It is a panning clip of the lecture feature with everyone in it. In the second screen shot it shows that just before the first verse i had put in a clip of the lecture theatre with 3 people in it, then a second with everyone in it.  Not realising that I have already put a full shot of everyone in the lecture theatre.  So, what I am planning on doing to improve this is remove the clip from the second screen shot with 3 people in the lecture theatre, but keep the second where it is full. I am going to put an effect on it, most probably either a slow motion blur one or a flashing one.  I think it would be best to go with the slow mo effect as we already have quite a lot of shots where there is a blink effect or sharp blackout effect on it.

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