Construction post 4: Reflections on edit Week 1

The first thing we did before beginning editing was to make an edit schedule. We agreed as a group to dedicate any free time we had to editing our project in order to finish creating a rough cut by the end of the week, this meant setting aside most of our free periods and several lunch time and after school sessions. We aimed to all be at as many of the sessions as possible so that we could make decisions as a group.

The things that we did during our edit week were:

• organising and re-naming our shots
• choosing the best takes for each shot
• Editing the shots and putting them together on the timeline
• editing our first split screen sequence
• Selecting a new music track and adding this to the edit. We also had to edit the music slightly to fit our sequence better
• Recording the voice over track and editing this into the sequence
• Creating basic temporary titles

During the first editing week we found it quite difficult to work together as a group, as we found that we had opposing ideas when it came to how we should edit our sequence. However rather than let this cause problems within our group and make editing a hard task, we made the decision to split our group and create two separate edits of our sequence, one by me and Ella and one by Josh and Gabriel. This decision meant that we could get on with editing and the process became a lot quicker. Despite creating two separate edits, we still worked together as a team at points to select music and helped each other edit some scenes. 

At the end of edit week one we showed our sequence so far to our target audience who gave us some important feedback. They said that Grace's personality and the fact that she was extremely angry did not come across as much as it could have, and so this lead us to plan a new shot of Grace scribbling out a picture of Ella with more force that we will shoot during the backup shoot.