Editing Process

This monday we had our second editing lesson in which we finished logging our shots into bins. (logging means sorting similiar shots(the best ones) into categories (files called bins).

We named every single shot with a special name so we can be able to know imediately which shot is which. The whole "Cliodynamics" rushtape was about 22mins long.

Our Log bin titles are:

1.Titles (all the shots were we see a title incoorperated into probs etc)
2. Library Shots (the ones we shot in the Library)
3. Photocopier (because we did quite a few shots with the photocopier we made a seperate file)
4. Extras ( containing CU´s; OSS´s; tracking shot´s etc)

LogBins are very important to keep track of all the different mainly short sequences of our film. The more files the better. It simplifies finding a shot later when you are editing all together to one sequence.

We also started editing in this lesson.

We cut following shots together:

1. Tracking of books
2. Feet Walking
3. Book Slam
4. again Feet walking
5. again Book Slam
6. OSS reading the book


This is the order we wanted to have our shots in. But while edititng we noticed that we can create a bigger impact and a more interesting sequence if we have quick cuts between 2 different shots. This is the reason why we basically did 2.3.2.3.

We tried to styalise our film wit jumpcuts and rewinds to make the whole sequence more exciting. After two lessons we got told that this is not working so we had to dumb that idea and start with our clear version again and think how we want to use after effects and how to put more titles into the sequence.