Session 10 (Week 6)

Second week of Editing

In week 6 most of the editing of the film had be done, however we did discover a few problems on the way. Such as problems with continuity, transitions and sound. Although we encountered a few problems, the editing process of the film generally went well as we had completed many of the transitions and edited most of the scenes to correspond and flow smoothly.

Problems and Actions to overcome!One of the problems we realised in the process of editing was that in one scene the actor was wearing his bag on his shoulders and leaves the classroom with it on, but by the time of the next scene in the corridor he no longer has the bag on. Leading to us having a small problem of continuity.

The bag is on the actors back

The scene straight after, the bag is no longer on his back.

Problem and Actions to overcome! While editing there were also a few

issues with transitions. When trying to put a cross fade in and out in-between these two clips it did not work by using one. So to overcome the problem the fade to colour transition had to be used twice in the space.

When applying the cross dissolve and trying to increase it’s duration it created a problem as there was no space on the timeline to place it. To overcome this the editor had to select ‘create transition’ and place it on top of the clip, then move the whole timeline backwards.

Problems and Actions to overcome!

Issues with the original scene with the homeless person lead to us having to include the addition of a new shot with Harry’s reaction to the homeless person asking for money. The problem with this addition was that it wasn’t shot in the same location at the same time and so enviromental issues such as the daylight affected the consistency of the scene, although we tried to make it as consistent as possible. The editor also copied the sound clip from the original scene to make it as realistic as possible.

Firstly there was a small glitch in the scene which could not be removed and so ruined the consistency of the shot and was a big problem. Later on we deleted a small section of the scene and replaced it. In addition to this the sound had to be dragged from part 1. and pulled along to part 2. to carry the sound over to the next scene. Whilst the audio sound at part 3. had to be deleted in order for it to be carried over.

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