Shortening Footage

Editing Footage

The task we had to achieve with the editing is to cut the footage down from about 3 minuets 30 to about 1 min 40 of original footage that way I can implement the production companies as well as the ending. 

I would do this in a number of ways:

• Cutting images down by merging them to certain points
• Getting rid of shots completely that are not needed and do not help the narrative.
• Rewinding some of the clips at different speeds 
• Also not repeating some of the footage as we had limited shots we could use

Stage One - Deleting useless Videos

This is easy to explain

Some of the footage like the one above did not have the correct lighting or standard that I was looking for. Some displayed match on action however when deleted there was still three points presented still making it match on action. In this shot It was just footage of him speaking about how much the drugs cost. This shot had too many errors

• you couldn't see his face
• poor quality sound
• acting was not good 

Many of the shots we filmed turned out like this which is why we had to use specific pieces of some parts.

Stage two - Merging Videos

This is where you grab one end of a clip and then drag it to make the previous shot flow into the next this would cut the original time of everything and make our clip even shorter. We had to be really critical for example on the walking scene we cut and merged a lot of clips to make sure it was long enough so that there was no massive jumps however short enough so that it did not get too boring.
However when we implemented the titles I felt the walking scene had something to look at making it look better.

I managed to get the clips under the time limit to 1:45 minuets without the production companies it was this length as I added an extra clip in the rewind which meant that more time was added onto the final result.