Construction Post 24: Edit week 1: the basic edit

Before we began the first edit week, we created an edit schedule that we used to coordinate our editing time outside of class.

Edit Week 1 was very successful. Because we had more shots than most groups, and more takes per shot, it took a substantial amount of time to label all of our shots and then decide on our best take. However, we managed to compile a basic edit before Friday, meaning we could use our sessions on Friday to review our cut and decide on whether we needed a back up shoot.

Me and Sayo putting our shots onto the timeline

It was in this week that we decided on which versions of shots we would use, in the cases where we took multiple different takes. Most notably was our pan shot, where we took around seven different versions of the same conversation for variety. After reviewing our footage, we chose the version whereby we would cut the portion of the shot where the two characters would switched, as we thought that once we had colour corrected it and edited the transition more finely, it would result in the best version of the shot.

Overall, the basic edit we created put us in good step for the second week, where we will need to do colour correction, sound mixing and titles; we worked well to turn up to our scheduled editing times so that we could finish our edit in advance of the deadline.