The Re-editing Process

Hi blog! As you guys know it is now the time for re-shooting and re-editing. We are going to wrap the film up. In the last blog I took the time to go review all the films and split it up piece by piece. It was for sure the greatest idea our group has came up with together. While editing using smaller pieces was smoother. For our first few productions we basically merged them, took all the videos and put them together. This made the films very very choppy. This is probably one of our biggest mistakes while editing and it resulted in our films ending with a lot of mistakes. We should've thought about this before hand. But we improved it and learned from our mistakes, which is very important. When you really believe your film is amazing its hard to accept that you made mistakes. Mistakes are how you grow and learn so all was well in the end. The first thing we did was go shot by shot. We went through them all very thoroughly while reviewing. We didn't end up using any of our new shots but they were good to have just in case. We started off with an opening scene and establishing scene of the house. We ended up putting the title on establishing scene shot. We wanted to cut out the sound so you couldn't hear the loud background noise. We also cut of the unnecessary film at the beginning of the shot. We watched the scenes over and over making sure our editing was perfect and the right speed. We then ended up making the scene faster after reviewing it. Then we finally cut off the extra footage at the end of the scene. It was finally to our liking and we went to edit the next clip. For the most part we followed these steps for all the scenes. For certain scenes we added background noise and/or music. It ended up being most of the time we had to speed the scenes up to make our film fit in the 2 minute limit.