Editing Proccess by Holly King

We have been working in the editing suite for many hours since we finished shooting our short film. We took over 400 shots and so there was a lot of footage to look through and this was very time consuming.
Today we have finished editing all of the footage (e.g cropping shots, rearranging footage, adding video effects) on Final Cut Pro, However we still need to complete the audio editing (this will be done using garage band).

Here are some print screens of different processes/stages throughout the editing process so far:

• Here is a screen shot showing how we added Video Filters to the Shots that needed colour adjustments and other filters added. We used on some of the watch shots and also used colour filters on shots of the computer screen when the white balance was off (screen was blue).

• Here is another screen shot showing the filter settings we added to some of the shots of the watch. We had to change the colour filters because the colour of the shots of the watch did not always match the time of day. So we had to darken and change some of these shots to match the time of day and colour of the shots that followed.

• When making the stop animation of the unicorn we had to open a new final cut pro, insert all the images of the unicorns in the correct order and export this as a finished movie file. We then had to import this into the short film final cut file. Because the shots of the unicorns in the sequence were too long (so it did not run smoothly), we had to shorted the duration of the file (as shown in the box above), so that the sequence would run quickly and look like the unicorns were moving.
• This was useful as it would have taken longer for us to have cut down each of the shots of the unicorns and so it made the editing process quicker for us.

• Above is a screen shot showing all of the footage in order after we had finished editing.