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 Me and Tisha 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. 

My editing process

Here is me and Tisha’s first attempt with some errors on Capcut. We edited the clips together, thinking about what shots to use to make the scene more interesting. The hardest part was probably trying to perfectly split the scenes at the right moment to create a smooth cut. 

There was a filming error towards the end where the subject walks to the side, but in the next shot, he's walking forward. We minimized this error by cutting the shot of him walking to the side a little short, and making the next shot longer. Here is my final scene. Editing multiple clips together made the scene better because it was smoother, more entertaining for the watcher and overall made it more dynamic.

Reflection 

This tutorial will give me some insights on how to edit and preform last minute changes just incase my group’s editor is unavailable. I admit I’m not the best with these kind of things however I think it will be beneficial to improve my editing skills. My biggest challenge was using the software itself as I don’t usually edit. Next time, I’ll familiarize myself with the software and play around with it more to further improve my editing. Unfortunately, I tried adding screenshots of our editing process here, but I had some technical issues and it wouldn’t let me add them.