Editing Journal

First day of editing took place on: 11/01/2016
Editing took place over a series of weeks.

1. Uploaded all the footage to Final Cut Pro.
2. Spent an hour converting all the footage.
3. Placed all the footage into Final Cut Pro in order of sequence as we did not film all the clips in order.
4. We then cut them in order to gather an idea of how long the piece was going to be to make sure we had enough to meet the requirements.
5. When we started to put the clips with lots of dialog in we needed to cut them immediately as this was going to make the editing process easier for us.
6. We decided to remove all the audio from the establishing clips leading up to the conversation.
7. We eventually found a song which suited our film opening from: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/3 (Tomorrow song). We then downloaded it and inserted it into Final Cut Pro after researching how this was achieved and how music impacts film.
8. We cut the music in order to stop it overshadowing the dialog and we also lowered the volume of the song in some parts of the film opening to make sure the dialog was easily heard.
9. We then inserted the opening titles (production companies name, Fair Oaks Productions) along with the actors names.
10. We thought it would be beneficial to receive feedback from the head of our department at this stage. She told us that the piece could be improved if we added the diegetic sounds back into all of the establishing shots at the beginning. She also said that we needed to cut a certain clip as it was too shaky and looked unprofessional and that having the production team's names at the end made the sequence look more like a short film, which did not meet the requirements of the task brief. 
11. We took on board all of what our teacher said and cut the clip that was shaky and added in the audio clips that were needed. This then meant that we needed to cut the audio clips to ensure they were in-sync with the visuals.  
12. Then we sped up the opening titles at the beginning and began to insert the names of the members of our production team. 
13. In the final stage we decide we needed an appropriate ending for the music therefore we needed to cut the song in a place which suited the ending of the opening. 
14. Finally, we rendered the entire piece and submitted it for a first round of evaluation.