Editing the Video 1 by Lucy Barker

Now that we have most of our filming done and it is on the timeline in the right order we have started to edit. So far we have slowed down clips that wern't long enough so they fit but yesterday we were introduced to changing the colour of clips, using the flip tool and zooming in by          . He noticed that in some of the clips the lighting is different to the following clip which makes it look inconsistant, so we can change this using the bit which is highlighted in red.

We also needed to zoom in the clip shown above becuase it was filmed on a different setting. Although when you zoom in you loose the quality we had to becuase the clip stood out as there were black boxes either side. To do this we used the scroll bar showen highlighted in red and then we can drag the clip into position. 

Whilst editing I realised that some of the clips especially the ones were our actresses, Grace, is mouthing the lyrics, were out of time, so we organised to re-film the clips. This time we helped the actress to practise the lyrics and made her do it to the right point of the music. This looked much more proffessional.

To also make it look more proffessional we had to make sure it didnt look staged. For example there were points when the clip started to early and you could see that the actors were looking into the camera waiting for there cue. To solve this we simply made sure every clip started when the action started to make it look more natural.

We used the flip tool becuase at some points it looked as though we had 'crossed the line'.



It refers to an imaginary line which cuts through the middle of the scene, from side to side with respect to the camera. Crossing the line changes the viewer's perspective in such as way that it causes disorientation and confusion. For this reason, crossing the line is something to be avoided.

In the dog walking scene it looked as though we had crossed it, so we used the flip tool (shown below) which helped it look more coherent. To do this we just clicked and dragged onto the appropriate clip.