Continuity Task Editing

Editing is one of the most important parts of creating a film because, as the title suggests, it must have continuity and create an atmosphere.

We used Apple Mac software to do our editing and started by importing all the footage we had filmed and selecting the best clips to use. Once we had put these in order we had to cut the down by milliseconds to make sure they were continuous and that the dialogue didn't get cut off or jump between sentences or words. This took a lot longer than anticipated as every detail was important.

Once we had finished editing the footage, we added Titles which fade in at the beginning along with some music which faded out at the end. The pictures show the editing effects that we added to our continuity task.

The pictures above shows the slow motion and fade out effect that can be seen at the end of the clip. This was a group decision as we thought it created a dramatic effect and good contrast to the fast paced action at the beginning.

Once we added these effects, we created our own music through the use of Garageband as we couldn't use any other song due to copyright. This meant that we could use music in the way we wanted to create the dramatic atmosphere and tension that we wanted at the end of the task.