Classwork: Editing Practice

This blog post contains the work I did in my lesson with Cassie on how to successfully edit. My teacher filmed the footage but I 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

For this editing process I use capcut as my editing software, before editing the clips we brainstorm which part we would cut it to make it smooth. We decided to make 2 different version, as one of the edit would be a much simpler cut while the other is a much more complex version as it keeps on jumping from shot to shot. 

During the editing process there were several errors that we had to encounter, where some shots had a camera error making the character to be walking the other opposite. This made the scene to be a little bit 

This screenshot shows how during the editing process, Me and Cassie tried two different version of the editing. Where at the end we ended up using the scene on the top. 

This screenshots shows the error of trying to match the scene where it changes from the character to open the door 

This screenshots shows the error that was cause by the camera error and not the editing error, as the character went the other way making the scene to be more 

This screenshots shows the error in trying to make the 

Here is the final product 

 Editing multiple clips together made the scene better because from the clips from not being smooth 

Reflection How will this tutorial help your project? What was your biggest challenge? How will you improve your editing next time?