Editing - 24, 25th and 27th February

The first week back after half term, and we had some new footage to llok through and edit in.
On the 24th we basically went through all the clips and made sure they were saved to our Z drive and were filmed alright. We also deleted the bits of filming that were not ours and that did not film properly.
The next day, the 25th, we started editing the shots into our opening so far. We watched each clip to see which would work best and cut it so that the continuity fit and the timing. This took a while because we had to keep watching it from the very beginning to watch if it fit with the entire opening. If we made any mistakes, for example; cutting the clip too much, we had to delete it and put it back in and start cutting again.
Once we'd finished editing our clips, we started to think about sound. We had planned to have a little rhyme playing over the film at certain points - sung by young children. So we got a MP3 recorder and went to a quiet room. Here we recoreded our song, a scream and a muffled one to see which worked best, then a door opening/closing - as these were the only sounds missing from our film. When we got back to the room we realised that we had not turned the microphone on and the sounds hadnt recorded - as it was the end of the lesson we had to leave it untill next time.
On the 27th we attempted to record our sounds again. We did eactly the same recordings, with the microphone on, but when we uploaded them onto the computer the sounds didnt show up. So we tried it with a different microphone, recoreded the same sounds, uploaded them to the computer and listened back to them - because they worked this time. We added them to our film and put them into the places we needed them then watched the entire opening back to see what it was like.