Editing Diary

After filming my film I started with the editing which took around two weeks. During this time, I kept a diary of what I was doing each day and took pictures of myself and my group editing to keep track of what I was doing each day. We also regularly took screen grabs to show us editing.

Day 1: We uploaded all 20 minutes of our footage onto the system and saved it on the computer's hard drive so that we could access it without having to use the tape. We then imported all of the footage into Abode Premiere so that we could edit the footage freely.

Day 2: We began by cutting out all of the poor shots that we would definitely not be using and we cut every shot individually and saved them in our bin so that we could access them easily when we next came to edit. Whilst this was happening, other members of our group began looking for royalty free music on the internet.

Day 3: We started watching every take of every shot one by one and chose the best take for each shot, saving them in our bin as we went along. While this was happening other group members were also producing the evaluation questionnaire.

Day 4: We arranged all of our shots on the time line to create a rough cut version of our thriller. By doing this we were able to make note of where we could cut the shots, which was necessary as our film was over 2 minutes over the 2 minute time limit at this point.

Day 5: We started trimming all of the shots and our thriller started to take shape and flow better. However, it was still over a minute too long and there were minor continuity errors to deal with. We also finished and printed off the questionnaires.

Day 6: We practically finished trimming our shots and our film was almost under 2 minutes by now. By using sources that we had found previously we also found and downloaded suitable royalty free music for our thriller.