Account Of Editing Our Preliminary Task

Once all the footage from our shoots of the conversations between two people were shot, the footage was then digitised and put onto a firewire hard drive to be cut and edited using the Final Cut Pro software run on G5 Macs. We then had to watch each take of every shot and log all of the best shots into the log bin, (rejecting ones that included actors’ mistakes, were out of focus, poorly constructed/composed or broke the 180o rule and thus compromised continuity and reality). The best shots were dropped/dragged onto the final cut timeline. We then went about editing the shots to put them into a logical sequence by trimming and extending the key shots to enable smooth continuity editing, that generated illusion of a continuous event (conversation). We did this by observing the simple rules of construction and cutting on motion whilst following the 180o directional/position rule giving a smooth and seamless final look.