Preliminary Task- Editing

After we had finished recording all of the shots that we needed to produce our short film, we decided to move on to editing the movie and finishing off our preliminary task.

Edward and myself sourcing music of 'FreeSound'

Edward and myself  used the website 'FreeSound' to source the background music that we needed for the film. We used 'FreeSound' because it has thousands of different sound clips uploaded by many different people and musicians, it is also free to download all of the sounds on 'FreeSound' and all of the sound clips are copyright free which meant that we were free to use them in our film without breaking any of the copyright laws.

As a group we decided to split into pairs for the post-filming production of our film which meant that Ed and myself were in charge of finding different sounds for the movie whereas Hannah and Megan were in charge of editing the film. If I were to do this again, I wouldn't have had the group split up because I felt that myself and Ed had a lot less input in the final production of the movie as we would have liked to, I will take this into account when it comes to producing my final piece so that I make sure that I have as much input on the editing as I can so that I don't feel as though I am letting someone else do the work for me. This seperation of tasks also meant that I was unable to learn any new things and improve my editing skills which will hinder my progress when it comes to editing my final piece.

Megan editing the movie on Adobe Premiere Pro

For the editing of the movie, we used Adobe Premiere Pro because it has many different features and effects that would be good for our movie and it is also fairly simple to use compared to other editing softwares such as 'Sony Vegas Pro'. Also Megan was familiar with the software which meant that she found it easy when editing the clips.