Rough Cut Edit

This is the first cut for our media coursework. As you can clearly see from watching it is very rough as we have only began to edit it, so far we have taken out all the sections that we 100% know won't be in our final piece (the '3, 2, 1 Action' at the start of every take) and then we have put all the shots that we are going to use in the right order, this doesn't mean that every shot shown will end up in the final piece. The most obvious flaw with this cut is the length as it is around 4 mins 30 without our ident added and needs to be 2 mins with the ident. This is obviously a big problem but one which can be easily solved as we are now going through it and cutting it down as much as we can. As this is also only the rough cut we also haven't added or made the music yet, this is something we need to do soon as we need to make sure the picture fits in with the sound.

So far I am enjoying editing although it can be fairly repetitive at times and a struggle to do. Though all things considered I am very happy with how the editing is going at the moment and have several ideas about how we can improve and cut down our opening, although I'm fairly certain Diana isn't going to like my ideas very much as she seems to love every shot and does not want to take any out. I think eventually she will realise however that a couple of her favourite shots may have to go. One of the things I am happiest with the editing so far is how well we have managed to sync up the audio from the recorder to the video (the parts synced up at towards the end in the alleyway) as I think we have managed to get it perfectly synced, which I thought was going to be a struggle but just took a little bit of fiddling.

AF/DY