Microdrama: Editing

Editing

In our group we split into 2 different editing groups, it would of been to much work to watch, if all 7 of us each individually editing the film ourselves. In my group there was George, Jake and Ben. We all worked together whilst editing this each putting in valid points across to make our micro drama better. We didn't struggle whilst editing the micro drama as we did have enough footage and we weren't missing any vital shots. However, we could have done with a lot more shot variety so we could of had more footage to play around with to break up the long takes - which was seemingly an issue whilst watching the finished micro drama.

The process started by importing all of our footage from the memory card onto the computers hard drive and then onto Final Cut Pro which therefore appeared in the final cut library. From this we were able to delete our excess footage and keep the footage that we needed. We then added our footage to the timeline a began to build up our micro drama.

We decided to include titles in the opening scenes, we used the titles tool to create the text and choose our choice of words carefully, we decided to include the title 'lads on tour' in the opening but we saved the credits until the end because we felt it was not appropriate to include them at the beginning. Also the transitions tool was used to fade from black to normal to create a suspense for the audience this method seemed effective at the time we edited but proved not so when we watched them over.

Another thing we added in the editing process which we couldn't do whilst filming or we couldn't get a sound that created a sense of realism, was adding in additional sound effects. We chose from a wide range of sound affects in the sound library and chose the ones best fitting. Also we could make our own music from a keyboard which we composed ourselves and then imported it to this library that added it to the scenes which we wanted the music in.