24/09/14 - Editing our Fashion Film

Editing was quite quick despite our problems. We first decided to watch through all the footage we had which turned out to run for almost three minutes- far more than the 60 seconds we had to captivate our audience. After looking at every shot we'd taken, we decided it would be a good idea to first narrow the clips down into what was usable to create a long version of what our one minute film would be. This longer film lasted 1 minute 34 seconds. Through the gruelling process of cutting down on shots that we reasoned weren't strong enough to make the one minute cut, our final film is 55 seconds long.

Whilst the screenshot above shows iMovie, we did some of the editing on Adobe Premiere Pro. The clip above depicts a scene where there are three of the same person and this was done on Premiere Pro through the help and guidance of our tutor. To create this effect, a 4 point mask was added onto the layers and the frames were then cropped to only reveal what was needed. Our major problem however was that for the final take we shot (the cream dress on the right), we'd forgotten to zoom out of the camera after taking a few close up shots of Loredana. Whilst the tripod had stayed in the same place, we'd lost the perspective due to the zooming in and this made the post-production editing a little harder. To combat it though, we simply resized the clip to make the frame itself smaller (or 'un-zoomed', if you'd like) and slotted it into where it should have been on the base clip.

Realising this mistake, I believe what would have been better was to plan more. Whilst we made an effort to storyboard and think out different shots, it's inevitable that problems will occur without sufficient planning. Since we'd only had Monday to plan, I think that I could produce work with half as many problems in it had I had a few more days to think. Other than this, working in a group was a fun way to explore other people's ideas. It was good and eye-opening to see what my group members' interests were and working closely as a team made us able to become closer to each other. As we've only known each other a matter of weeks, there's nothing like scaling walls together and squeezing you into your prom dress to bring you closer.