Editing day three. 19/3/2012.

Today we began editing the footage we recorded on recording day two. This was the scene that was shot at my home. After the title 'obscure' we added a fade to black effect so it would fade into the film. As we had recorded long clips of footage in different rooms in the house we wanted to split the clips into smaller sections so we could use the clips sparingly and quickly. As we didn't know how to split clips we experimented and discovered how, to split clips you highlight the whole line footage and press E to send the footage to the editing section of imovie, once there you run your mouse along the clip up until the part of the footage you want to split then press shift, apple, S, and the clip will split.


While watching our footage we realised that some shots were too long was we converted the whole video and then sped the clips up, we did this instead of cutting them down because we liked the clips as a whole we just wanted them to run quicker and smoother.
After we edited all our footage and put it together we realised there was a shot between Natalie as Sarah hitting our victim over the head were it jumped this was because while recording we could not run the whole scene on one continually shot because it was to long and mistakes kept happening so we cut the scene into two parts and this lead to the footage jumping in editing. As there was nothing we could do about the jump to smooth it out we added static inbetween the two shots to give the effect that the camera malfunctioned for a moment and then carried on recording, this not only resolved our footage problem but also gave a realistic effect to our footage as this is highly likely to happen when amateur recording. 


Other than speeding up our clips we did not over edit our footage like we did with the hospital scenes where we changed the lighting, colour, and added a rasta  effect to the shots. However there was one clip we flipped which was Jodie's scene on the stairs where she was dead body, we flipped the shot because this made her arms look more distorted and broken.