Preliminary Task Part 2

Following on from the shooting of the preliminary task it was time for our footage to be edited. Our group of 4 split off into pairs and I worked with Eduarda to edit what we has shot.

Upon viewing the footage we had shot we were displeased to find that not all the shots aligned with one another. In one shot Eduarda would be holding the script up and in another the script would be held by her waist or another example would be one of the actresses would be standing in a different place to where she was stood in the shot before making the editing process of making each of the shots flow from one to the other seamlessly a challenge and much more difficult.

In an effort to resolve this and to make everything look better despite the flaws in our filming we used a technique Matt taught us called unlinking. Essentially the clip and the audio are as one and are shown as a pair on screen, however, we unlinked audio specifically from the close ups and cut out the audio we didn't want and replaced it with what we wanted to be there instead. I feel we did this very well as you could not tell that we has used this editing to our advantage. This technique saved our skin on this preliminary task and practically gave us the clips we wished we had filmed or done much better.

Reflecting back on our work I wish we had filmed more shots of each position and angle of the camera even if that had meant more time being spent. I feel this would have helped us so that our final clip was not as rushed and we had more options if some of the clips did not fit together properly. Our final product was particularly short because of this lack of footage. In my opinion my favourite shot and also the hardest shot that looked the best once edited into a sequence was the focus pull of the handle which initially instigated the start of the final piece.