Editing evaluation

Children's Drama


In my children's drama project, we made our own short 5 minute children's drama.
As a group we shot 3 different outcomes of our film each very different and unique with a variety of shots, angles and length.
We decided to edit all of the them but unfortunately we didn't use all of the different films, the final film, which we did decide to use, was edited very carefully, with great concentration and determination.
In all there were four of us in the group and we took it in turns to edit different  part, we all participated in making sure it was all going well, and was up to the standard we all wanted it to be. 
By the end of our editing for our short children's drama it turned out not to be the way we visioned it to be, because in my opinion it wasn't well prepared or organised and that was down to our own individual failings - which made me and others in the group feel disappointed with our work.


What I did when editing:


Like all of our roles when editing, I made sure that it all flowed together nicely for example, to check there were no; jump cuts, continuity errors, uneven lighting etc. When ever myself or other members of the group made any changes to the film we made sure to watch back everything to make sure it was fine. While in the editing process I put in special effects into the title sequence using adobe premier pro, I adjusted uneven lighting in some shots, I cropped scenes, edited sound - such as overlaying sound and adding non-diagetic sound. Like all of the group I had no set roles for editing as we took it in turns and gave feedback for other editing processes such as credit roles at the end of the film, music and title sequence which was completed by other members of the group but all took part in.


Our final outcome was completed, in total in length it was just under 5 minuets long - the film itself did not at all live up to our visions or expectations. In an editing point of view, i'd say in my own opinion it was rather successful seeing as it was our first project - we used the available software and most of its features to complete our final edited outcome.
we used websites for our sound effects and music. we also used photoshop to adjust some discoloured lighting for several scenes.


How I edited the film:

- set up a new project

-import footage into the 'E drive' and save / organise them.

-organise footage into bins

- arranging footage into a timeline - so we can arrange the shots and scenes in the order and ratio in which we want 

- trimming clips to cut any unnecessary shots, scenes or parts of those for different reasons such as something being wrong, being in the wrong lighting etc.

- we used premier pro and photoshop and the special effects on the software - we also used

  a website for our sound/music