Preparing for Editing

Preparing for Editing

There were some tasks that we were set out to do before we could film and edit to prepare for when we had to edit.

The first we were told to do is to stripe the tapes before we started filming and what this means is to put the tape in the camera and set it to record, we don’t actually record with the tape we kept the cap on the camera and we also turned audio recording off and let the tape record all the way to the end (1hr). If we do not stripe tapes then we might not get correct times codes displayed on the camera when we are filming which would cause many complications in production like recording over footage or not knowing how much footage was actually recorded beacuse the timing wouldnt be accurate .

Labelling our tapes was another important thing so that we know exactly what footage we were capturing, scenes, shoot day whatever information we needed to help sort out the footage we had got.

How the footage was captured and setting up our edit project

So getting the footage of the tape means setting up a project and sending the footage into a folder specifically for the footage.  So we would need a camera and a fire wire cable and to have our project open.

What an edit decision list is and how it can be used

An edit decision list helps us when in the edit to decide what footage we can use and what footage we should avoid like if a scene didn’t come out to plan and the footage was un useable we would put that in a bin and this would help keep things organised, but it isn’t just about what footage shouldn’t be used it’s also about what footage we must keep like if a scene was so crucial to the story we would have to keep that in the film no matter what. This helps us streamline our decisions when deciding what clips to use.

How footage was assessed

So once we captured our footage and had imported them into our edit project we watched all of the clips we had gathered looking for any faults and outtakes and to help keep track of any footage that wasn’t usable we created a bin in our project to place that footage in, any clips that could be saved we just wrote down that clip name, bin name and what the fault with the fault was.

How we organised our edit project

We the large number of clips to look through it would have been a pain to look for a specific scene or specific shoot day so to organise the footage into a more manageable form we created bins or folders, this allowed us to organise the footage anyway we wanted, as a team we choose to go with the date just because we knew what scenes we filmed on what day but other sorting methods could have been used.