Editing our thriller

After completing the filming of our thriller we moved onto the next step, which was editing it. This began with viewing all our footage we had shot, which was placed in the rushes file. This was useful as we could watch the different angles and decide what footage would be highlighted featured in our thriller.

➖This is an image of the rushes file (footage) we shot.

While editing I learnt some vital information that would help me through this stage and make editing a lot faster and a lot less hassle. For example pressing ‘a’ on the keyboard and clicking a clip on the timeline highlights everything past the clip you have clicked so you are able to move the whole section in a group.

Throughout the process of editing our thriller we came across some key decisions we had to make for example we had to look at what footage we could use and what we couldn’t, we logs the shots into certain groups onto our timeline, which divided them into start, the action scene (the middle) and the ending. We also had to look out of continuity errors. By the end of editing we are expected to finish the edited picture, then the sound and lastly the end effects. In addition to this we are hoping our thriller will create suspense and also intriguing to the audience.

➖This image shows the timeline and how we set it up, placed the clips. You can drag the blue line on the timeline to the section you want to watch again, which can help with looking continuity
errors.

We are expected to share the editing computer with other media students. So we need to share our time fairly and book time slots in advanced.

For editing our thriller we will use adobe premiere pro as it is the best way to learn and edit footage and we are all armatures and cannot use complicated programmes.

The timeline on adobe premiere pro is used to collect the shots, edit and change the format making smoother transitions. It is also very useful to group together the shots into sections. We made sure all our clips we re-names so you can easily find out what are your good shots plus the ones you are particularly looking for.

Our group thought it would be a good decision to duplicate our original rough cut of our thriller so we knew the original was always save while we could play around with the copy of the original for example trying different shots in different places ad cutting original shots. It also helps test the continuity of the shots without disturbing your original shots in the original folder.

➖The image above shows the original file of editing and also the two other duplicated versions.

We cropped almost all of our filmed shots, some we filming the entire scene and we then later chose in editing, which parts of that shot we wanted to use. To make this process easier we used a cutting tool such as a blade and a razor. Our group used the blade on a regular basis when editing and cropping clips as it cut one particular clip into two making the shot two individual shots instead of one long shot. This helped make and create smoother shot transitions, making the sequence of shots flow better.

So far we have used 8 layers because if you only use one layer, footage can get cut off to early it can also take away audio footage with this.