Classwork: Editing Practice

This blog post contains the work I did in my lesson on how to successfully edit. My teacher filmed the footage but me and my partner (Candra) 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

Explain how you edited the clips together. Include screenshots of the editing software.  We used a lot of cuts and tools from canva.

Here is my first attempt, which had some misunderstandings with the editing app we were using as there was a lack of editing tools that Canva offers their users. We couldn't fix this issue as we do not have any other editing apps besides Canva installed in our devices.

Here is my final scene. Editing multiple clips together made the scene better because it made the whole scene understandable for the audience to watch. Without it, audience would have to watch raw footages that do not make any sense.

Reflection: This helped us to decide who had the best editing skills in our group so they could edit our final film. The biggest challenge was that our editing software Canva has limited editing options so the result was not on the maximum performance. All we had was multiple cuts and no zoom or effects elements in our practice. Next time we would have to get real editing software such as Capcut. The reason we had to use Canva was because me and my partner had no editing software and it would take a long time to download Capcut (or any other editing software) within the classwork timeframe.