'Leaving' Edit

Documenting my edit for Jordan Deakin's short-film 'Leaving'.

Edit timeline for 'Leaving'

Logging and organisation of footage

Prior to logging the footage, I converted the footage under the 'Apple Pro Res 422' format using 'MPEG Streamclip'. This ensures the footage is of high quality and will allow me to edit fluently without any drops in frames or coding.

ROUGH ASSEMBLY - 

• I stuck closely to the shot-list Jordan and I created, but took the initiative and decided not to include the 'cutaways' Jordan instructed me to capture on-set, as they weren't deemed necessary for a short-film. 

ROUGH CUT - 

• Attached the external sound recordings to the clips to ensure higher quality audio.

• Refined the rough assembly by shortening certain clips

• Discarded camera sound

FINE CUT - 

• Further refinements on clips were made

• Stabilisation' feature added to certain clips that appeared too shaky. 

• Picture-lock exported for sound designer