Editing Equipment

Final Cut Express

Garageband

In order to edit our film and radio trailer correctly, we had to use certain programmes available to us through our college.

To edit our film, we used the programme 'Final Cut Express', available on the Apple Macs we have at college. The programme was familiar to us, seen as we had used the software in our As year, therefore we already knew the basics of the programme. However, this year, we had to learn new skills, such as how to put different texts on our film for our title sequence. We did this is order to make the text appear in different sizes and colour, and also to appear and disappear in a particular effect, such as wipe and fade.

Moreover, we also had to learn how to put voice recordings over our film in order to fit with a voiceover. We had done this in our As year with a radio trailer which went over our film, however this year was slightly different, as the recordings weren't all at once, they were spaced out over our film, therefore learning where to put them in the right place was vital.

We also had to put effects on our film, e.g the flashbacks in our film were placed in black and white in order to give the effect of a flashback. Therefore we had to experiment with the different effects we could use.

Because we are in our second year, the quality of the editing has to be better, namely crisper and smoother. Therefore the editing done by our group had to be precise and accurate, and as our film was longer, this proved time consuming. However, we found the programme 'Final Cut Express' to be sufficient for our film.

To edit our films sound and radio trailer, we had to use the programme 'Garageband'. We had never used the programme before, therefore we had to learn how to use the programme correctly from our tutors, before using it to edit our sound. This involved using the volume tool to increase or decrease any recorded sound, as well as pitch control and adding extra sound over our recorded sound, for our radio trailer.