Filming - Pre shooting/preperation

The software I used to manipulate and edit my filming was Corel Video Studio 12. The software was new to me so I needed some practice with the programme. I was given to sample videos to practice with in order to prepare myself for when the day came where I would need to be a small amount of experince with the programme so success in editing my film clips is maximised.

The two sample film clips I was given was one long 25 minute Lord of The Rings (Fellowship of the Ring) scene and a home made clip where students were walking through doors and out of rooms. This was comprised of 4 small clips of them leaving rooms where a camera would be set up outside and inside the door. This helped enhance our skills in being able to edit, in this case this abled us to learn about Continuity editing.

Below is the all the 4 parts of the basic sample of the students walking in the building:

Part 1 of the Sample - This part consists of a woman leaving a classroom. The camera follows her around and I have to edit this so that as soon as she opens the door the shot switches to the camera in the corridor.

Part 2 of the sample - This part of the sample films the corridor or hallway. The aim of this part of the excercise is to edit where the door opens and then cut out the second half after she pushes the button located on the left of the shot. This shot unlike the first part of the sample is a long shot which stays still shooting the woman walking into the camera's position.

Part 3 of the Sample - This part of the editing excercise fully focuses on the button the woman eventually pushes. The shot is an extreme close up shooting in no other postion but directly at the button. As soon as she pushes the button the clips needs be cut from after it has been pushed to allow continuity for the final part of the sample.

Part 4 of the sample - This is the final part of the sample is of the girl leaving the building after pressing the button. The clip will be cut after she pushes the button so therefore with this clip the long shot needs to capture the door opening immeadiately and the follow the girl leave.

After taking all 4 clips I began to use the different tools such as different colour, layout or cutting sections of the shot. The task was to create a collection of all 4 samples and join them together as best as possible using continuity editing. This means that I had to cut the clips at ceratin times so they would all link well and join up as if one clip.

Below is my attempt of using the cutting tools in an attempt to allow all 4 samples to flow as 1:

Final design

Above, the final design consisting of all 4 sample pieces edited to create a continuity editing effect.