Preliminary Task Lesson Four- Editing

In today's lesson I thought that the footage we filmed last lesson was a waste of time so we tried capturing the original footage again but with no success. However we then tried capturing it straight from the camera rather than putting the tape in the capture machine and it worked! When we started to edit, the seperate clips didn't seem to play which frustrated the group as it appeared to be another problem but it was sorted out quickly when we restarted the program. The first part of editing is quite time consuming and boring- searching through all the clips and naming them. We had to delete a lot as we had lots of cuts with mistakes or versions that we filmed over and over again- which was probably unneccessary. After a while when we plugged the headphones in to listen to our chosen clips the sound didn't work. This seemed to be because we captured from a different camera to the one we used when filming- so we had to start from the beginning which was annoying after we spend the time searching through the clips. It wasn't too bad as the organising did not take too long. I found the editing software easy and enjoyable to use and liked cutting the unneccessary parts of each clip off and putting it together on the timeline. It is satisfying after a few tries to see that footage flows well together. It was good to experiment with the different angles you could use and I think when we filmed it was a good decision of the group to film the same lines from different perspectives. Once we started editing for the second time we did not encounter any problems and it was an enjoyable process even if it can be trial and error. I think I should have let the other members of the group do more but everyone put there ideas and suggestions in so we worked well. Even though there are things about it that could be better I am proud of the end result after all those problems. Overall, this was a good lesson as we were able to overcome the problems and work well to get the task finished and as such is a good quality practice task.