Editing task

Before we started editing we watched all of the shots and we marked each shot as either "best", "good" or "alternative" and left the clips that we definately werent going to. At first we just wanted to put together a very rough version of the whole thing that we could tweak as we go on .We decided that we were going to start by making the opening montage of the contestants in the show. We began my adding to two short clips of each contestant  doing an action that suited their character best. We used one close up and one medium shot for some variation. As our thriller progressed we changed this montage to try to shorten it. We experimented with lots of different techniques like having quick close-ups with a short gap between each one. Next we started editing the interviews. When deciding which clip was best we had to look at the lighting and the sound. After this was over with we linked them together and added text to show who was being interviewed and two small facts about each person.

Being a reality TV show, our thriller used a lot of contiuity editing devivces. We had two montages, the first one introducing the contestants  consisting of each contestant doing actions in front of a green screen and the second montage was of the winner of last year. This was a montage showing her killings from last series and therefore had a lot of match on action. These editing devices are conventions of thrillers therefore we had to have some to make it less like a boring TV programme but more like a thriller

There were two mics attatched, one attatched to the camera and one was handheld. Therefore we had to choose the sound channel which sounded better so I used some good headphone and went through each clip only listening to the sound. Once I had removed all the bad sounding bits I then doubled the good sound so the voices would sound loud and clear. We also had to add a lot of sound from sound cut pro. First we chose the music for the intro. It was quite difficult finding music that would fit for a reality TV show but we eventually found an up-beat soundtrack perfect for our thriller. In contrast, the music for the end montage had to start slow and build up till a climax. This soundtrack had to be heavily edited so that it would be synchronous to what was happening in the montage, so the music would reach its high point when the homeless woman wins the show. After this we added noises such as audiences clapping and gun shots. We faded all the music and the clapping to make it sound less disjointed.

I found the editing hard, but enjoyable. Our thriller was the most time consuming because there was so much to edit. I found the software (final cut pro) easy to use after spending a long time in the editing suite. I did a lot of work on our thriller in my spare time, spending time on it in lunch and during my free periods. Most of my time was spent on editing both of the montages and editing sound. I think that our group worked very well together and we all took an active role in editing.