Construction Post 8: My personal contribution to the Edit Sessions

Me editing after school

Personally, one of my greatest strengths when it came to our production was my editing ability, as I produce GoPro videos as a hobby, so already knew alot of what had to be done. This meant that I personally felt that I was able to work quickly and achieve a high standard of work. Most days I would try to get in early and do 15 or 20 minute short sessions before school started, but as we got closer to the deadline for our project, I began to work for 30 to 40 minutes most days before school. We also all gave up the majority of our free periods and a couple days a week after school in order to finish the project on time. I did a lot of the cutting of shots and grading. I also recorded our music and was involved extensively in the sound mixing of our final edit.

Looking back, I would have paid slightly more attention to the lighting in our shots, as it would have made grading far easier. The same is true for our sound, as we often had a lot of background noise in the recordings and thus were required to take sound from other takes and overlay this over the chosen take's visuals. This was a time consuming process that could have been avoided.