More editing

Editing
Last week we did more editing than filming. We have progressed in our editing as we now have our advert more or less put together. At the moment, there are several gaps in between because they are either the shots that we still need to film or we are not happy with the shot and want to re shoot that particular one. We have not yet added any transitions in into our advert, however due to the shots being too long and making the pace of the advert too slow, we have cut almost all of our shots using the software. This means that the advert flows much better, it gives us more time to work with (as we can include more shots) and it allows us to get rid of bad beginnings and ends of shots.

One problem that we are facing with the editing is that our advert seems to be getting too long. At the moment, it is longer than what it would actually be because we have left gaps in between some shots and not all the shots have been cut yet. However, once we put them all together, we will have to eliminate the shots which are not really necessary in order to make the advert much shorter. We have already started to do this by removing shots which don't really have a purpose in the advert or if we have a shot which is already similar to it. In our original storyboard we have an 'end screen' however we may have to remove this because our advert will be too long if we use this. Alternatively, we could remove some shots in order to make space for the 'end screen' because this would be selling the product to the audience perhaps more so than the shots of the couple. I think that we are going to try out both possibilities to see which is more effective.

There are some re-shoots to be done over the next week or so, however during the editing process, the shots which need re-shooting are still in the sequence so that we know what fits in where as well as it just being a temporary shot so we can have a rough idea of what it will look like. Whilst I was editing I noticed that you could change the colour of the clips by going onto the edit drop down menu, clicking label and then choosing the colour. This has helped us a lot because we have colour coded our sequence in order for us to find clips easily, and know which ones we are keeping and which are temporary. We have used a pink coloured label to identify those shots that we will be re-shooting, whilst the other clips are in a blue label colour, as they are the ones that we are happy with.