Skills Audit: Editing

Our Skills Audits we were taught at the beggining of our Film project were vital for us to complete our final piece of work. The skills we were taught such as;

Final cut pro- cutting clips, changing speed, changing colour, adding edits

Livetype- creating text, changing its colour, adding effects, adding backgrounds, changing the style,

Sound Track Pro- Listening to the music, playing more than one track at the same time, fading sounds in and our, adding sound effects,

and overall just knowing how to use the programme.

Before beggining editing, our way of keeping all our shots organised was to arange them in order and rename each shot. This allowed us to allocate each shot easily once they were imported into final cut pro.
By then following the storyboard we was able to start putting the shots onto the timeline including extra shots we had filmed. For the changing of scene we put in "fade" edits to allow our film to flow. We began our shots with the woman in a urban enviroment. This gave the film an instant calm feel. Soon as the scene begins to change the normality of our film begins to disapear and the audience will realise somethings wrong with this "woods" setting. In order to make our "wood" settings stand out more, we changed the speed of the shots to a slower pace and added a black and white effect to some of them.
Changing the shots to differeng setting also allowed us to create an elipses. Cutting to the "wood" shots then back to the woman meant that we could skip time and put her in a different place each time rather than filming her whole movement.
The last shot of the woman throwing away the key was our most meaningful shot of our opening. The woman throwing away the key implied that she had something in her past she wanted to hide and she was doing this by throwing away the evidence to it.