Final Cut Pro Experience

After filming our scene using the basic storyboard, we went back up to the editing suite to meet up with Matt so that he could show us how to use Final Cut Pro properly to make our scene flow.
As my group wanted to try editing themselves, we split up into two groups. Hannah by herself in one group and Yixuan and myself in the other. Matt told us that although we followed the storyboard structure to film the scene, we didn't need to follow it for the final product.
From the previous editing lesson, we had already learned how to zoom into our footage, cut and paste the footage using "I" and "O" and how to overlap the footage so that we could play sound over the top if we wanted to.

At the start, we chose to have a different type of shot depending on who was talking because we thought that it would look effective, but Matt later said that he didn't want us to keep changing shots because it made the footage choppy and hard for the audience to follow. Instead, he wanted us to use one shot for two or three lines so that the audience could see the reaction of the actor depending on what was being said to him/her. This made our scene flow more and gave it a sense of realism.
When showing Matt what we thought was our finished product, he was very quick to point out that we had crossed the 180 degree line. When choosing our shots, we had to switch the positioning of the actors against the storyboard because the door to the room was opposite to the storyboard's door. Although switching people around would have worked out, we forgot to carry this out into the other shots so to the audience, the characters kept swapping sides of the room.

We thought that we wouldn't be able to edit our scene because we crossed the 180 degree line, but luckily for us, we had filmed enough shots that we had moments where we didn't cross the line. With Matt's help, we were able to cut out the moments where we crossed the line and we just used less shots running over the lines.

This experience taught me how not to cross the 180 degree line and if I were to do the same again, I could now edit it in a way which makes it look decent. If I were to film again, I would make sure that I get more shots and from different angles so that we have enough footage to play with.