Editing of our Continuity Task

After finishing the filming, we imported all of our clips onto the Mac's. Once these had imported of the camera onto the Mac we could then open up Adobe Premiere. This enabled us to import the clips onto this piece of the software. As I had never used Adobe Premiere before myself and my group had a mini tutorial session with our teacher so we knew where all of the tools were that we would need to get started. This enabled us to find the rest of the tools as we went along the process of putting the Continuity Editing Task together.

Our first task when we had uploaded all of the clips and imported them into Adobe Premiere was to go through all of our clips that we took to see which ones we were going to use and to also see which ones were of the better quality. This enabled us to be critical about our work as we had to watch the clips closely to make sure that the camera was steady at all times. This also allowed us to see if we followed the 180 degree rule. This was extremely important that we checked for this. If we hadn't has followed the 180 degree rule we should of had to reshoot all of the clips in that location. When going through the clips we deleted the ones that we felt were of a good standard. This then enabled us to write down the clips that we were going to use. From watching the clips back, myself, Amy and Josh realised that we needed to reshoot two of our clips. We decided to reshoot these two clips so that they were of a better quality. For example one of the scenes that we wanted to reshoot was when Josh ( acting as the murderer) had the weapon behind his back. This was a close up shot so that we could only see the weapon and his hand behind his back. We needed to reshoot this as the weapon wasn't in full view as it was hidden by the coat that was being worn. By reshooting it enabled us as a group to firstly get a better shot of this close up and secondly to improve our skills. Our second reshoot in which we decided to do was when the Murderer was walking down the hallway looking through the door before he goes through one. We decided together as a group that this needed reshooting as we needed to focus on being able to use the technique of panning correctly. From looking back at our first few clips of this compared to when we reshoot it I can say that we definitely progressed when using the camera.
After selecting our clips from the reshoot we started to edit and put together our task. To start off with we firstly put all of our clips into the timeline. This then allowed us to watch the clips in order. After watching the clips we then as a group discussed each clip and where about we were going to cut or spilt the clip. For example in our first shot we have the murderer coming from around the corner of a building. This was a long shot which allowed for the audience to establish where this character was going to be going.  As the character got closer this then allowed us to cut to a close-up of his face. By cutting to a close-up it allows the audience to see the characters facial expressions. This then allows them to determinate what they think the character is thinking about and also how the character if feeling and portraying emotion. This is important for the rest of the task as it then allows us to go back to a medium shot of the character running to the destination.

This is the tool we used to cut the clips:

 After we had together all of our clips and were happy with the editing, we added in a Title. Again here I learnt how to add in a title and also how to make it move across the screen.

Creating the Title

Adding Effects

For the title sequence we decided to have a black background with white writing. The font in which we used was Sans Serif font. This was decided upon as group. 

• Black Background

• White Text
• Black Background
• Sans Serif Font has been used which makes it clear and easy to read. The use of this typeface is simple, yet effective.

• Moving onto the screen

• Once the text has appeared it stayed on the screen for about two seconds.
• It then slowly disappears with the effect of a 'Cross Dissolve'.

Once we had reviewed our editing task, we decided to add some music in over the top of the audio. This music that we added in was dramatic and frightening. This created an atmosphere of tension.

Below is our finshed Continuity Editing Task:




I have learnt many new things from completing the Continuity Editing Task. Firstly I have learn about the 180 degree rule when using a camera. This was important when we were filming as we couldn't break this rule. Secondly, I have also been able to physically use the camera to use the technique of panning and also the use of close ups, medium shots, long shots and a shot reverse shot.  From looking back at the requirements for this task I feel that myself and my group have done our best to try and for fill these requirements to the best of our ability. I feel as if I have progressed a lot since the start of this task. By being able to practice the techniques and how to edit the film will help when we are at this stage in our opening two minutes of our film. I will now be able to use these skills in which I have learnt and developed and be able to incorporate these into my groups film.