Coursework: Editing

Last week we started to edit our opening title sequence.

Firstly, we started to look through the footage, looking for the rushes we want to use. This process was very interesting for me as I really wanted to see what we did on the shoot day. There were a lot of different shots to choose from as we made a number of them for each action. However, straightaway, we understood two things: we forgot to film the main character on his own and that to edit our product will be harder then others as we have no order and no storyline.

When we finished, we had about 30 minutes of footage and it was a lot. Then, we started to divide rushes in different categories like stable shots, moving, "artistic" shots, sounds and etc. This was done  to make the editing process easier.

At first we wanted to combine all the moving shots which go from black to black to make an interesting picture as the people and room would change every time when shot goes to black. When we have done this, it looked pretty good, but short and we didn't know how to combine this with other shots.

On the next time we got in the editing suit we decided that we have to move on even if we didn't know what order it will be. So we started to combine together stable and moving shots for the same scene as we think later on, we will see how it will be better.

So, for this stage, we need to finish combining all scenes, after choose the layout, music and titles.