Editing

Editing was a task itself, none of us had an inkling of what to do once we had opened up the programme. As we started off with no knowledge of Final Cut Express, this has made the editing process the part I was most proudest of.
Each of us did a bit editing, this meant that we had a wider coverage of how to work the programme and what each button meant and we helped out each other whilst taking the wheel. We did have our fair share of dilemmas, for example, accidentally having deleted the opening credits, our file not being able to be saved, finding the most suitable transition/ filter.
We have managed to reverse footage, make our footage look like it is on the TV, add a ripple effect in between transitions, add and takeaway necessary audio clips, make some tracks louder than others whilst being played at the same time and much more.
As we are almost at the end of editing the footage we have been collecting over these past weeks, my group and I have started to make sure we reach the targets we set for ourselves each media session.
One thing that editing made us realize was that, by not including any dialogue within our opening, the audience may find it confusing. When we recorded the voice over we played around with it in Garage Band, however, none of the filters we tried sounded good. So we added the voice over in and decided that with no changes to it, it sounded how we wanted it. One other problem we had to solve was that when we recorded a voice for the man that walked down the cellar steps, we thought the person's voice we used to say "Look at me!" did not sound right, after much deliberation. This is when we found that on Final Cut Express, by slowing down the voice it makes it appear much deeper. This voice was then put into our final version of Daisy.
If we had came across this problem earlier on, then we would not have came up with a solution as quick as we did as we had no awareness that audio clips and video could be slowed down.
Furthermore, another problem we would have been able to tackle as easy was how to reverse a shot.
We managed to reverse the shot were it goes from the eyes on the Missing Person's poster, to the cellar. Originally, the first shot the audience sees of Daisy was a zoom in shot, though with the ability to reverse the clip this enabled the extreme close up shots of her eyes flow.