Micro Drama: Editing

Once we had completed out micro drama we went back to school and split our filming group into two separate groups, this meant that there would be two final edits of the micro drama that we had created. By splitting the group into two meant that we could cover different perspectives and see how others would interpret it.

In the group i was working with on the edit we cut down many of the clips using Final Cut Pro (FCP) cutting tool to shorten some of the long takes to make the flow of the film run more smoothly and also to help make it for the audience more understandable of what is happening in the scenes. Final Cut Pro was very helpful when editing as it helped us add titles to show the name of the micro drama, who certain roles were played by (characters) and who directed the micro drama. Also FCP made it possible for us to use a fading tool which faded one scene into another to show an ellipsis. Finally FCP provided different choices of  sound effects which could be used to create extra tension and suspense to give the ultimate scare.

If i was to re-do this process again i would try and firstly capture more shot varieties which would make it simpler to edit and have a wider choice of snippets to add into the editing, i also would try and add a bit more violence and gore as in the micro drama we have made the movement of the killers actions aren't very scary and don't cause the audience to jump whereas if we were to add more snippets of the action of the knife for example been struck back and forth more often this would help create the imagery of the killer brutally attacking the victim.