Prelim Task Part 2:

On Friday we went to the edit suite to edit the video from last weeks filming task. We were agin using Adobe Premier Pro, I had learned the basics from the lesson in our first editing lesson, so I transferred my skills to this task.

We were given a blank timeline, with the files already prepared for us. I used a basic cut on action approach, this made the edits seamless, and made for invisible cuts. After time, my timeline became cluttered, and I found it hard to manage all of the clips, if I was to repay the task I would, try to keep all of the edits lower, opposed to going for the stacking like approach (see below screenshot).

Timeline before cleanup.

As you can see above the timeline is very cluttered, even after tidying it up a bit, I found it hard to move around the timeline and became confused, and found it strenuous to do any edits. See the right image for the timeline before clean-up. I had assumed that the audio worked in a similar way to the video, and that it worked by the further it is away from the centre the higher the priority, and all other audio would be blocked, but I was wrong, it simply accumulates the audio and combines it into one huge echoey cacophony. To fix the audio issue, I had to go into every single clip, and cut it to the exact length that it is going to be shown. I had learned that it is easier to use use "i", and "o" on the keyboard to pre-cut the footage.

As a group we decided to add a additional tense scene to the end, this scene was a nice addition to the edit, and allowed my show off my editing skills in both both dialogue, and action. A problem which we managed to fix was the fade to black, I am not a confident user of Adobe Premier Pro, so I had to fiddle around with the settings to find the fade to black setting. We added in the fade to black setting, because we wanted to show that a long time had passed since the last scene, and to add tension.

Normal editing done inside "Standard" the fade to black setting was hidden in "effects"

If I was to do the task again I would of made shore that when the actors were participating in dialogue, they had left enough time between lines, this would of made editing better, and of given me more flexibility in terms of timing.
In terms of editing I would of made shore that all of the clips on the timeline would be more organised, which would of allowed me to make edits more efficiently. Co editing proved difficult, because each edit you do makes a huge difference, even if it is only a few frames. If I was to do  the edit differently, I would try to collaborate with my coeditor, and make mutually agreed roles in the editing, and to do separate areas independently, to avoid conflict, and only at the end comment of each others work, and amend it as required.