Editing our Film

After each day of filming we have done so far, we have spent the following media lessons editing the different clips and placing them together. This allows the film to come together and shows us where we need to add clips and if there are any that we need to re-film, due to problems such as:

• Lighting
• Cutting out parts of the actor
• Being able to see the filmers etc
• Clips being the wrong timing

We began editing by uploading the song to Adobe Premier and, after editing it, inserted all of the clips from the previous day of filming so they were ready to insert to the timeline. By having them uploaded ready it saved time on having to go through each of the clips individually to find the necessary one, making our editing time more organised. By importing the song to the program first, we could fit the clips to the correct times using the timeline we have previously made.

Uploaded videos

 We then began placing the clips in the timeline on Adobe Premiere in the correct order and then, using our timeline, cut them down to the correct times.

The timeline

This included removing any unwanted scenes in the clips, such as laughing or movement at the end. To do so we had to 'Split clip' at the point we wanted the clip to begin/end, which could be chosen by moving the red bar and then clicking the 'split clip' tool:

Splitting the Clip

 However, some of the time slots for parts of the video meant cutting down the clips considerably and so we used the time stretch tool to speed certain clips up and therefore fit them into shorter time frames, like we had planned on our timeline/ storyboard:

Speeding up clips

We then removed the audio clips from the filming we had done as we will be inserting a soundtrack to the song and therefore do not want added sound. To do so we right-clicked on the audio part of the clip in the timeline and chose to 'unlink audio and video' before deleting the audio part:

Unlinking Audio and Video

These steps have helped us to make a good start to the editing of our film while showing where we need to add the further clips we will obtain from filming and where we need to re-film.