Evaluation of the Prelim Editing

For our preliminary task, we created a short video about a bully and a geek, where the geek became an "avenger" and punished the bully for steeling her lunch money.

Once we had filmed our scenes, we needed to edit them, to link them all together so that the story we wanted to represent in the video would make sense, adding appropriate transitions between shots and music where appropriate. We used iMovie to do this.

As this was our first experiance using iMovie, it gave us a chance to play around with the program, seeing what features it offered to us to add to our short video, and on the whole, get to terms with how to edit a set of scenes.

The first step was to cut down all of our shots to the correct stages, so that they all flowed onto each other, and put them in order. This stage took a little while to do, to get the clips at the correct lengths and to figure out how to cut them down to size.

When editing the shots that we had taken, we added a fading out effect to the end of some scenes so the transition from that scene to another would be smooth and swift. This helped the video look more ordered and professional.

We also added an opening title to the beginning of the short video to let the audience know what it was called, and to start off the video professionally, and gradually, not pushing the viewer straight into the scene that then comes up.

To some of the shots we added sound. We used sounds from You Tube, which we converted and inserted into iMovie appropriately. For the dramatic sound at the beginning when the title appears and when the bully wakes up, we used one long dramatic sound clip and cut the bits we desired. However, as we weren't content with each individual cut sound, Annie thought to overlap 2 together - this became our iconic The Avengers: Schoolgirl Edition sound.

This process of our first editing session was really valuble for us as a group, allowing us to really get to grips on how to edit footage that we have planned and shot- giving us an idea of what editing our final film opening courswork will be like.