Editing

  We used Final Cut Pro to edit our short silent film. We did this using the basic knowledge we had and learnt a lot of our way around the software through trial and error during the first through sessions of editing. After this, we found it much easier to edit our project. For example, we used the blade tool to trim areas of footage as well as simply dragging it to make it smaller. We also included simple transitions such as 'cross dissolve'.

  Throughout the editing process, we took it in turns to physically edit the film using the mouse or keyboard and each put across our ideas to ensure that the result was something that we both wanted.

  We edited various aspects of the film to make that character's journey look continuous. An example of how we did this would be through cross fading cut sections of a long shot of the character walking up a path to highlight the aspect of time in the piece. Another example of cross fading that was used, was between a panning shot of a landscape and a graveyard to create a seamless piece of film.