Editing

The majority of the editing for our film was also done by me along with the filming. We used Apple Mac Software to edit our film as this was the software system which was installed into our school systems. I did have some trouble at the beginning of the because the cord which connected the camera to the PC did not work at all and therefore I had to go through several different cords (many which had faults in them) until finally finding one which worked and let me import all the clips onto the PC. Once all the clips were on the PC I backed them all up onto my memory stick just in case anything went wrong and they deleted off the software. After wards, I put them in order i.e deleted non useful clips I know I didn't need at all and then finally begun putting the film together. Thankfully because we were making a Social Realism this meant we did not have to use any difficult editing or special effects which would have taken a lot longer. Because this was my first time editing as well I wasn't familiar with the software all that much but gradually I learnt how to use it and then realised it isn't too hard after all once I got the hang of things, which was handy. I cut scenes and put different ones together and undid some cutting to see what fit best and whether it looked good or not. It takes a lot of patience and time to edit because each clip needs to be place properly and cut to the right size at the right second and if one bit is misplaced then it looks completely wrong. I must admit some parts were frustrating but it was just as fun as well. After the film was finally put together Me and my partner watched it through a few times just to see if there was anything we wanted to change or add. We included several titles with questions on them and headings in-between the different scenes. I wanted to keep the dialogue in the film but the background sounds out of it so then with the help of my friend Jon we added the music and it already sounded much better. A few fiddling around with the music was needed, for example, fading it out and in when speech was increasing or decreasing in the scenes. After the music was done, all we had to do was turn the entire film into black and white, this is because I said to my partner that I felt if the film was in black and white effect then it would look like more of a social realism film and have that gloomy depressing effect to it. And depressing was the effect I was initially going for anyway. I was very happy with the overall outcome of the film and so was my partner. Then we made copies of it onto DVDs to hand over to our teachers.