I haven't gotten more frustrated when editing with any other project before; but with this one I was about to brake my laptop, yes yes, I was that mad.
When I first started editing it, I thought "oh how lovely it looks, it's a masterpiece", but once I realised how long it was I thought "oh my lord- how can I cut it down, when it's perfect?". Yes my first edit of the film was around 10mins. Then my second one went down to 6 minutes. And my third one? Ha my third one is the one I'm submitting, which I'm not happy with. It's around 4:30mins (4:34mins to be exact) but the way I cut down pieces of it was quite rough and so the edit on this film of mine is, as I'm used to saying: absolutely disgusting, which makes me not appreciate the amount of work I've put into this project. However, this post is not about me complaining about my edit, but about me explaining and analysing how I edited my film, 'A Journey Through Freedom'.
At first I listed all the events that occur in the script in the order that they should appear. Then I started putting my footage together, so that then I would crop whichever part I didn't want or like. As I was editing, I got a bit carried away by the amazing colours and the great quality of my whole film, which is due to the fact that I used the Canon 7D, instead of one of the Sonys.
Which brings me to my next point. SOUND. Sound was one aspect of film that needed a lot of effort to get. Whilst we were filming, I turned around to Danny (my camera & sound operator) and asked him how the sound was, and at that moment he started panicking. So again, we restarted filming the whole scene we had just filmed, and played back the scene on the camera and the sound was perfect. So I thought again, what if the sound is amazing on the camera and 'shitty' on my laptop. As we were already outside the halls, I went up to go get my laptop, so we were sure that the sound was perfect (as the perfectionist I am I had to double-check). Once we put the footage on my laptop, I cringed at the bad quality of the sound, which was worrying. In the end we fixed it but when I was editing the footage with the bad quality sound had the best image, which I wanted to include in the film, which made me think, why not mute most of my film and add music, instead of having the worst quality of sound? Which I ended up doing.
The second aspect of my film that needed fixing was: LIGHT & COLOURS. As a perfectionist I am, I wanted every single shot to match with each other's colours. When I imported all of my footage, the colouring of each video was VEEEERY different to one another, and so I had to colour correct most of my images/videos to match eau other.
And last but not least: CONTINUITY. I dreaded it whilst editing. This is mainly because when we started filming it was around 2:30pm and by the end of that filming day it was around 8-9pm. So as you can imagine, filming outside for that whole day had a great affect of the continuity of the images, indeed on the light, as the videos we took at the beginning had a very different intensity of sunlight than the videos we took towards the end. During my editing process I had to of course colour correct most of the parts where the sunlight was bright so it would match to the darker images towards the end.
So this is it.
Yours,
I.
When I first started editing it, I thought "oh how lovely it looks, it's a masterpiece", but once I realised how long it was I thought "oh my lord- how can I cut it down, when it's perfect?". Yes my first edit of the film was around 10mins. Then my second one went down to 6 minutes. And my third one? Ha my third one is the one I'm submitting, which I'm not happy with. It's around 4:30mins (4:34mins to be exact) but the way I cut down pieces of it was quite rough and so the edit on this film of mine is, as I'm used to saying: absolutely disgusting, which makes me not appreciate the amount of work I've put into this project. However, this post is not about me complaining about my edit, but about me explaining and analysing how I edited my film, 'A Journey Through Freedom'.
At first I listed all the events that occur in the script in the order that they should appear. Then I started putting my footage together, so that then I would crop whichever part I didn't want or like. As I was editing, I got a bit carried away by the amazing colours and the great quality of my whole film, which is due to the fact that I used the Canon 7D, instead of one of the Sonys.Which brings me to my next point. SOUND. Sound was one aspect of film that needed a lot of effort to get. Whilst we were filming, I turned around to Danny (my camera & sound operator) and asked him how the sound was, and at that moment he started panicking. So again, we restarted filming the whole scene we had just filmed, and played back the scene on the camera and the sound was perfect. So I thought again, what if the sound is amazing on the camera and 'shitty' on my laptop. As we were already outside the halls, I went up to go get my laptop, so we were sure that the sound was perfect (as the perfectionist I am I had to double-check). Once we put the footage on my laptop, I cringed at the bad quality of the sound, which was worrying. In the end we fixed it but when I was editing the footage with the bad quality sound had the best image, which I wanted to include in the film, which made me think, why not mute most of my film and add music, instead of having the worst quality of sound? Which I ended up doing.The second aspect of my film that needed fixing was: LIGHT & COLOURS. As a perfectionist I am, I wanted every single shot to match with each other's colours. When I imported all of my footage, the colouring of each video was VEEEERY different to one another, and so I had to colour correct most of my images/videos to match eau other.
And last but not least: CONTINUITY. I dreaded it whilst editing. This is mainly because when we started filming it was around 2:30pm and by the end of that filming day it was around 8-9pm. So as you can imagine, filming outside for that whole day had a great affect of the continuity of the images, indeed on the light, as the videos we took at the beginning had a very different intensity of sunlight than the videos we took towards the end. During my editing process I had to of course colour correct most of the parts where the sunlight was bright so it would match to the darker images towards the end.
So this is it.
Yours,
I.
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