After receiving the feedback from our teacher, I went to edit the video straight away. As a group we decided to re-film and produce a script as well so that it would look more professional, this was a good idea and it helped me with the editing as I didn’t have to cut unnecessary speech. The key things I changed in my video where:
- I shortened the whole video and cut out unnecessary parts.
- Shortened the length of the pictures at the beginning and made the quality of the picture better and clearer
- There is now a distinct difference between the beginning scene and the graveyard scene.
- I made sure there was a high level of continuity (e.g. opening sequence when they’re coming down the stairs).
- I made sure that every transition I used, had a purpose.
- I have used the beginning music as a motif which is repeated throughout the thriller.
- And I have varied the different shot types and used different angles.
I found it a lot easier the second time of editing, this was because I had some feedback and knew what I was working towards. Also, I had familiarised myself with the new programs (Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects) so I knew how to make my thriller to a higher level and gain more marks.
Seeing as I did most of mine at home, I would often have to do something at school, export it, save it onto my memory stick, bring it home, upload it onto the computer and import it again which was a bit of a hassle at the beginning, especially when I forgot to export it. So when we got the feedback, I learnt from my mistakes and did it all at home, only bringing it to school when I needed to.
I then created a second rough cut, in order to hopefully get more feedback which would highlight what else I needed to work on. Below I have embedded my second rough cut:
Doing this proved very helpful as I knew which parts needed polishing etc.
After receiving feedback I made the changes and didn’t have any other problems.
The main problems I personally had, were mainly my fault. Because I was working with different software, I often did not back up my movie or export it correctly. This lead to problems I then had to deal with and in some cases I had to re-edit the footage. Throughout my editing, I have been saving separate parts of the movie and working on them individually which was a big help because I could then import it straight into the main movie and have a backup. Towards the second draft I often forgot to do this which was my fault and often enough suffered the consequences.
If I could go back and change things, I definitely would. This would be in terms of not having to re-film our piece and have a script from the beginning. Also, spend more time planning our filming as well as to not waste time. These things could have been improved greatly along with me editing the video with transitions for a reason, and not just using them to get from one scene to the other.
Overall, despite those few mistakes I did my best to make the final product as good as it could be whilst learning lots of new editing techniques along the way.
