2nd and 3rd lesson on editing our final project

Saturday 12th March 2022 

2nd time in the editing suite

In the first editing lesson we put all of our shots onto the time line and was starting to edit them to be shorter so we wouldn't go over the 2 minute mark. To accomplish this, Tom showed us how we could click on a single frame and edit it to the exact time rather than having an extra few seconds on each shot. This also meant that our sequence looked cleaner and smoother as the transitions between each shot flowed more. To make our sound flow and to make sure that there isn't pauses between them, we used a fader at the end of the sound in one shot and fade in the sound in the next one. This creates a seamless transition and improves the sound quality. We did the same thing with the sound as we did with the shots by going into them closer and made sure that we didn't have any unnessasary second on each one. 

Doug was in charge of editing the non-diegetic soundtrack for our sequence. He editing on the software app Logic Pro X as he does music tec. We decided that the Kate Bush version of the song Babushka would bet most appropriate for our sequence as it has a build up and the topic of the song is about a wife thinking that her husband is cheating on her which relates to our sequence. He struggled at the start of editing as we had to move the second verse of the song in front of the first chorus due to the length of our sequence. This was pretty difficult as we had to make sure the transition wasn't noticeable. In the end he had to find a part in both the verses that matched and edited it on the partition. Once it was all good on Logic Pro X, we converted it to Premiere Pro and attached it to our sequence. I then went through and made sure that the soundtrack match the action. One of the difficulties was matching the moment when the door is slammed to when the chorus started. We wanted to do this as the whole song is building up to the end scene so we needed the contrast to be dramatic. 

Third time in the editing suite

On the next day of editing we had a bit of a problem as on the day I was absent from editing, someone in our group managed to delete all of the original shot sounds which meant that we had no sound of Nikki screaming and the car door opening and closing. Luckily Tom and I went through the saved history to try and find a day where the sound had been saved. Luckily we found the original sound footage. The downside was that it was the unedited version and was still over 3 minutes. I stayed in the suite for the next hour lining the sound up to the action and cutting the unnecessary parts. Thankfully, it was saveable and I managed to put it back to normal. Even at the end of the sequence we were 20 seconds over 2 minutes so preferably we needed to get it to exactly 2 minutes. I managed to get the song to 2 minutes. The way that we cut down time was shortening the length of the titles to the length of each shot and shortening the time that the 'My Love' title was up on the screen. Once we had it down to just under 2 minute we showed our sequence to Tom and Adam just check that everything had been done correctly and that we hadn't left any titles out. Once we got the go ahead we could hand in our work.