Story-telling Unit: Editing notes

I haven't really had much experience with editing so when i had to edit my own work for my summer project i found an app on the ipad that was pretty simple to use. FCP is a giant step up from this so i was really worried i wouldn't be able to get the ideas i had in my head to work in real life because of my lack of editing skills. So i got a book from the library and slowly but surely got to grips with the basics.
After my Shoot i watched the clips back and started to get an idea of what would work and put them into my timeline and started to cut the clips to flow better. I decided i would only do a rough version first as i already knew that some of the clips were soft focus so the first go at editing was mainly to get a visual idea of the story and what it looked like all together and also to see if i needed any other shots. its at this point i could see that scenes 1 and 2 didn't work just being played straight into each other. I needed to find a shot in between. So it was back to the drawing board for that.

I also began to mess about with the blurs and found one that was perfect for my filming. Here is it in use.



In my film i want the first few shots to be blurred as they are hints to the rest of the story. I also thought it would be an interesting way of starting the film and ease the audience into the argument as it would be playing over the top.

Now to film the rest and get to grips with sound editing.

Stay safe,

Helen