Amy Knight : February 2016

International - Editing Diary

International

Editing Diary

30th Nov - after getting a large bulk of the footage on Friday (27/11) today we started editing multiple sections of our trailer
2nd Dec - after getting multiple aerial shots of London whilst up the shard at the weekend and some shots of Waterloo as well I started to edit them into the trailer but struggled to finish the section with them in as I didn't have the running shots of the protagonist/antagonist in London
4th Dec - evaluated which time lapse to use after we shot some on Tuesday (1/12) but will probably come back to this later as it's hard to choose at this early stage as there's not much else of the trailer to relate it too.
9th Dec - continued to edit the footage of antagonist and protagonist after they bump into each other down a street, having to choose between multiple shots as we want to build suspense as we want to question whether she will catch them or not but at the same time we want to keep things fast paced as its a trailer.
11th Dec - began piecing together the end sequence of the cars on the rooftop
14th Dec - Put in still images of America, Amy's car, Washington and London to signify what shots/ chunks of footage we need to get - helps to piece the trailer together better so we have more of an idea of what it will look like at the end.
4th Jan - Finalized the end montage, put more scenes in
28th Jan - Rough edit of trailer finished, need to find music and record extra dialogue at a later stage
2nd Feb - End montage edited, titles added in at the end, opening sequence edited just need to add music
12th Feb - Trailer complete, just need to add shots from America which I will get next week when I'm out there.

Online Tutorials - Editing

International - Relevant editing online tutorials

We watched several tutorials for adobe learning the basics of how to edit using the software and how to add effects, later on I used adobe to learn about audio effects as this was something I had not done the previous year. I learnt how to balance audio and especially useful was learning how to make audio sound like it was coming out of a phone (crucial for one scene as without this effect the audio sounded very strange).

I also watched adobe tutorials to learn shortcuts to make editing videos quicker as well as watching videos to go over the basics as I hadn't used the software since last year and wanted to make sure I knew exactly how to use the footage so I could produced the highest quality piece possible.

Friday 2nd October - Had a brief meeting about first ideas and roughly mind mapped and story boarded these ideas.
Thursday 15th October - Interviewed Billy and Matthew Cottee who play the Kingsley Brothers in International
Wednesday 21st October - After school we drove to Producer Chloe's sisters house, where we filmed a couple of scenes, we stayed around 2 hours and got a variety of potential shots.

* Continued working on International trailer planning on our blogs *

Wednesday 18th November - Our Production titles were completed
Thursday 19th November - Planned on going to London to get shots of south bank etc., but at last minute we couldn't all make it, so rescheduled for a later date.
Friday 20th November - Chloe and I (Amy), started editing our trailer using "Adobe Premiere Elements 10".

Wednesday 25th Of November - Chloe, Rashmi and I were supposed to go to Epsom train station to get shots of Agent Miller chasing a train. Although we couldn't make it and have now rescheduled
Friday 27th November - Our group including the Cottee twins, all went to Leatherhead Town to film a car chase scene in the multi story car park, where we obtained the footage which will end our trailer.
Sunday 29th November - Chloe went to London on the weekend with her family and filmed some shots up The Shard as well as Waterloo Station.

Tuesday 1st December - At lunchtime we went to Leatherhead town centre and recorded a time lapse from above the high-street, of all the people walking past.
Wednesday 16th December- While on our 6-form BBC London trip we arrived earlier so we could film some London scenes. We went to St Pauls and recorded parts also did another time lapse as we felt it was a lot more busy and would result in a better and more effective time lapse.

Tuesday 12th January - Chloe and I went to Leatherhead town after school, to record a phone conversation and a few running scenes. we chose Leatherhead as it closely resembled parts of London which we originally planned to film in, but due to time restrictions we chose Leatherhead.