The Start of Editing

Now we've finally shouted "that's a rap" it's time to start the long process of editing. They have all the footage they need ready to be turned into a fabulous film.

Marissa who works at the Cornerhouse cinema gave us a run through in the editing lounge. There seems to be a lot of tricky things to remember about editing, especially fine editing. After she'd showed us some basics on the macs, we watched some of the footage we had. We watched the kitchen scene which had lots of cuts and a few mistakes in it. It also had lots for the editors to work with and be clever about.

Once we'd finished watching, it was time for them to decide how they wanted the shots to go. They worked out the camera man's style of wide shot, mid shot, close up. There was some nice establishing shots of our actor setting up the kitchen - boiling curried goat and putting the kettle on.

So after they'd watched the footage and got an idea of how the shots were going to go, it was time to look at the script and the storyboard and start editing for real.

They split up into two groups to start editing the beginning kitchen scene. They began to work out more of the order of the shots and what they could do with the little mistakes that were made.

With the editing beginning it's starting to look much more like a film than just a few random shots of people having a chat.