18/12/09

In this lesson we started to edit our footage. After importing our footage to Final Cut Pro Sara explained to us how important it is to set a scratch disc in order to keep our footage and progress safe. The program we were using was Final Cut Pro, at first this was extremely daunting and looked difficult but after being explained a few basics it became easier and easier with more practice. I found I picked up techniques and shortcuts quite well, such as pressing apple+i on the keyboard and apple+o to select the part of the clip you need. I began by doing a rough cut of my film putting the clips in the correct order very roughly, choosing clips out of each shot to create a storyline similar to the storyboard, this was fairly easy but it was obvious there was a lot of work to do as there was ‘cut’, ‘action’ or ‘rolling on’ being shouted prematurely over the top of useful footage. By looking at the overall footage we had captured everything we aimed to in terms of sticking to the storyboard, but seemed we had slipped slightly from the brief in terms of showing a gothic side of Bath. The shots of Bath we did get I believe are good but I would try to get more if we did this again. I think we did quite a good job but may have got carried away with excitement of making a film and using equipment rather than keeping the brief fresh in our minds.