Today we had our first editing lesson which involved editing the sequence which we filmed last week. As I was in a group with two other people (Vogue and Rishad), we decided to split up to edit. I stayed with Vogue and Rishad edited with Hannah because she missed the filming session.
Vogue and I looked at our original idea with Rishad shaking my hand to see if we could put together some sort of sequence, but not even the computers could fix the errors that we made.
Moving on to our much better second sequence, we had plenty of shots to work with. We flowed from a wide shot - to a medium close-up of Vogue - to an extreme close-up of Vogue's face - to a POV of her watch - and then back to a wide shot for when she lay down again. For me personally, I loved the POV shot of the watch because it gave the sequence a sense of reality and showed the audience the time of day.
I found the sequence especially clever because our transitions between shots were done while she was moving, so it showed that our continuity was perfect which pleased me because our original sequence had no continuity at all.
From this session, I started to get the hang of the shortcuts used for editing such as the buttons "I" and "O" to cut and paste the footage. Overall I thought this session was productive as we managed to create a full flowing sequence and at the same time we picked up some editing skills.
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