editing practice

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

We uses canva , because it is more simple to use for short edits and it is easier to add the clips . to edit and we use normal cuts in between each clips we make continuity edit .

Here is my first attempt with some errors. Here is how I fixed the errors…I fixed the errors by cutting the clips in the perfect place so that the clip creates continuety edit

Here is my final scene. Editing multiple clips together made the scene better because…

Reflection How will this tutorial help your project? This helps us to decide who has the best editing skills in our group so they could edit our final film. What was your biggest challenge? The biggest challenge was to learn the How will you improve your editing next time?