Editing

To edit our film we used Premier Elements, a editing programme available from our school system. We chose to use this as it had the best tools for what we needed and was more suitable for a larger film as this rather than, movie-make (what we made our animations on).

 

In the image above, I have circled the process of how we inserted our files into the programme ready to edit. This was easy and quick to do.

Here is a print screen of our 'sceneline' and 'timeline'. The top image is the scene line. We used this when we wanted a clearer look on what is in each scene, using images of the scenes to narrate our film. This was good for when we wanted to ensure we had everything in our film, including images as well as video clips, (something I will mention further on).

The bottom image is the timeline. We used this when we wanted to see more of the duration of the scenes rather than what was in them. This was also an easy way of recording how much time we had left within our 5 minute limit, and to ensure each scene follows onto the next straight away.

As mentioned above, our film included both images and video clips. For example in our establishing shot of the row of houses, revealing the characters house. We felt like the final pause on the characters house wasn't long enough for the audience to establish this as important, and wasn't enough time for the audience to properly see the house. We therefore took a print screen of the final frame, and inserted it was an image in the next scene for a duration of a few seconds. This created a longer pause on the house, of which a viewer wouldn't even tell the difference or notice what we did.

 To insert our music into the film, we had to first convert the files we downloaded, into files that the editing programme accepted. After we did this we then used the same way as we would video clips, by going 'organise', 'get media' and 'files and folders'.

It was easier to keep track of what music we inserted by using the 'timeline'. This was because it showed us our film in layers, of visual and audio. Of which we could layer music over the video's diagetic sound of replace it for it and vise versa. In the image above I have circled the establishing shot on the timeline. As you can see here we deleted the sound from the video clip. This was because the sound was of noisy cars and passing people of which overpowered the shot and would be distracting for the viewer. It also made the film look unprofessional. We chose not to insert any other sound here and to just leave it as silent, linking to other conventional establishing shots.

In the image above, shows a technique we used alot when editing which was to enhance the size of the scene cutting allowance, meaning we could be more accurate with where we cut the scene to. This meant we could be more precise, ensuring our cut shots were to of high quality to add to the realism of our film.

In the image above shows the audio of our film. This was something we used to measure our sound and ensure it was 'smooth' when cutting between scenes.

Overall I feel using the programme itself was easy and simple, with many options and tools for us to use to enhance our film to how we wanted and of good quality. However we did have a few issues with the system crashing on several occasions, and trying to transfer our film into other files to be put on disk. But we used the programme successfully and are very happy with the outcome.