Editing: Where Are We Now?

We have a deadline for the 15th February to have completed a rough cut of our coursework. So far I believe we are fully on track to meeting this deadline because most of the clips we would like to use are in the correct order along with our titles and transitions. However, we still need to find a relevant piece of music to fit our product with and this is proving to be a challenge. 

As I mentioned earlier, most of our clips are in the correct order and look good, however we are having a bit of trouble with the one of the clips where our protagonist brings the glass up towards her mouth. When we were at the location filming, we thought the shot on the camera screen looked good however, after placing it into our product and having a closer look at it we can see that the camera wobbles slightly therefore we will either need to re-shoot this or cut the shot out. 

In addition, we were criticised that the way we had shot our flashback, was not clear enough to the audience that it was indeed a flashback. Therefore, we investigated some of the controls and effects on Premiere and discovered that we could slightly adapt and change the colour of some individual clips. Therefore, we decided as a group that we would try changing the colour of the flashback clip slightly, to a nearly midway point between normal and black and white. The idea behind the black and white is to represent the clip is going back in time. However, if this is unsuccessful we will simply re-shoot this scene in a different way. 

Finding music is one of our next biggest and most important jobs because this may alter the length of some of our shots/ transitions/ titles, or change the tempo and overall mood of our piece therefore we will need to choose it quickly in order for us to adapt our product to ensure they piece together effectively. Moreover, we are in the process of deciding a name for our piece and so far 'Obsession' is the product, however, it is not set in stone. 

On the other hand, we have successfully  incorporated our titles and ensured they are all the correct and same length of time as well as chosen a text and layout for them to appear in. Our product so far is roughly a time of 1 minute and 45 seconds long and there are still a few more clips we can add in to bring it up to the required length of time. 

Overall I believe we are making good progress and we are definitely on track to meeting the deadline next week. In my opinion we are working well as a group because we have each made sure we have equally contributed to the tasks and worked individually to ensure the project moves forward. In addition, we can all work together and come to agreements when it comes to big decisions and checking over each others individual work to ensure we are all content with how our product looks. Furthermore, I am extremely pleased with my own progress because I had hardly ever even used a Mac before joining this course, however, now I have impressed myself by my own contribution to the editing tasks and have successfully edited a number of sections of our final piece. Therefore, I have shown dramatic improvement in my ability to edit and I have gained many skills from using Adobe Premiere in this technical area.