6/9/11

In film class today we continued on the editing of the challenge shoot. Having completed the basic assembly edit last class, all we had to do this class were to edit the cuts and dialogue to a finer point, overlap audio to create a better sense of continuity, add background music, and text like the title and the credits. The process of creating a finer edit of the film took most of the lesson to do. There weren't any real obstacles that we faced as the footage were all shot correctly, making it easy and straightforward to edit. However, one of the smaller problems that we faced were that during the production stage, we would film a certain shot a couple of times and Alastair and Riley would occasionally change their dialogue in the different shots that we did, making the editing stage of assembling the clips together a little strenuous. However, we played around with the audio and overlapping the images so that with good editing, we bypassed the obstacle and the continuity of the film turned out quite well. To further enhance the suspense in our film, we picked out a suspenseful soundtrack from YouTube and applied that to our film. We reviewed our film a couple more times to check for any errors, and we were done.

The group was satisfied with the final product as there were some great cuts and there was good continuity throughout the film. Also, the fact that the dialogue was edited so that it overlapped one another, also helped to hold the suspense and keep the audience on the edge of their chairs. One thing that we could have done to improve out film would be to have chosen the HD quality memory-based camera, as it would have significantly changed the quality of the image we shot.