Editing Assignment Pictures

This post will show the evidence I have accrued to show that I have sorted the footage for, and edited, the Christmas advert 'A Gift That Matters'.

After shooting the footage and taking it off the SD card and deleting it from the SD card, I created a good and bad bin to store the footage after it had been sorted and checked. This will make editing easier as I will massively cut down how much footage I will need to look through to edit it.



After creating the bins I went through each video and renamed them so that it would be easier to identify them when it came time to edit them. The names chosen for each of the videos was made simple to, once again, make finding them during the editing easier. I named them who was in the shot and what they were doing to make editing easier, as I will find the right shot even quicker if I know what I'm looking for specifically.

After the footage was renamed I went and made a rushes log to track all the shots I had for the video, from both the good bin and the bad bin. I tracked how long each video was as well as whether I was going to use it or not. If I decided not to use a particular video, I would give a valid reason as to why. This also acts as evidence that I have been through each individual shot and analysed it closely, looking for faults.

After this was done I made an edit decision list to keep track of all the shots that I was going to use. I tracked how long each shot was before and after the edit was done. I also kept track of what kind of technique was used in the shot. This would make it easier to reference the different shots in the future.

And now comes the fun part, editing. I imported the footage from the good bin to Premiere Pro ready for editing. After importing all the footage and leaving the bad bin behind, I proceeded to cut the footage down to a manageable size and fitted it into the editing software on the timeline, with the video going on top and the audio on the bottom. I sorted all of the shots I was using onto the timeline and moved them to the right place. I added some transitions to the footage and exported it to my hard drive.

Finally, an image of the folder after the video has been fully edited, showing the song used, the pictures in this post and the bins I used to store my footage. I kept all of this in one place to make finding the necessary things easier. The preparations I made before editing made it incredibly easy to find and edit the footage I had chosen to use.