Reflection on Editing

Initially our editing went quite well. But during this stage it helped highlight the impurities of our sequence. Our group worked well together with deciding what clips we were going to use and where an appropriate cut would be to make the continuity flawless. One scene that we realised was very awkward was when Emma was leaned forward to place a cup of tea down on the table n then she is standing up right in the next shot. We filmed an extra little shot of a close-up of the cup being placed to disguise this. A big issue we had was with the sound. Eventually we just decided to choose a piece of the film where sound was of a decent level and just copied n pasted it throughout to act as background noise in a cafe. We used the Apple Macs and iMovie HD to do our editing. We followed the rules of continuity editing by carefully placing the cursor at an accurate point in two shots before splitting them and putting the two continual shots next to each other. We only used cuts as any other transition was not appropriate for continuity editing, such as a dissovle.