Classwork: editing practice

 This blog post contains the work I did in my lesson on how to successfully edit. My teacher filmed the footage but I worked with Maha to edited it together. My teacher also provided the template for the blog post. 

Why is continuity editing important?

Continuity editing includes making sure that items like props or costumes stay consistent from scene to scene. But the more important work lies in editing shots together in a way that leaves viewers thoroughly grounded in both time and space.

Different types of continuity edit 

• Straight cut (cut)

• Eyeline match 

• Shot /reverse shot

• Cutaway / Insert 

*Match cut

Footage

Here is the footage that my teacher shot which utilises a variety of camera angles and movements. The scene is very simple, it involves a student standing up and leaving the classroom. A single shot here might be quite boring for the audience, by editing and combining the shots together we can make the scene feel more dynamic. 

https://youtu.be/dZ2IH8KjRjE?feature=shared

My editing process

First we looked over the clips that our teacher had recorded for us then we decided the order of clips from when the actor was leaving the seat to leaving the room then uploading set clips to Cap Cut. We decided to use Cap Cut as it is free easy to use and has a bunch of templates for effects and transitions which really helped fulfil our creative visions. 

For the first edit we decided to use simplier cuts without any effects we used this as a rough guideline or a plan of how we are going to sync up orientate and time the cuts.

For our next edit we started to play around and experiment with diffrent effects with digital zooms and camera movements and trasitions.

Refection:

This helped me get a better understanding of video editing as I have rarely done it in the past. Overall it was a fun process and brought back memories of when I was a kid and we used to splice together random videos. I think this will help us be able to better edit our videos. As for challenges it was probably the connection as more than 20 people were all simultaniously downloading clips from a google drive which was stressful on the bandwidth. I think next time I wanna try using diffrent softwares and experimeting more adn hopefully create an apealing but unique style.