Editing bath film footage

Today we continued to edit our films After loading my film onto Final cut pro I firstly arranged the footage into the correct sequence that I needed my film to be in, which makes it easier for me to edit later.

After this I started to select the parts of my film I wanted to use by playing the footage and pressing 'I' for where i wanted to select the beginning part of the film I wanted to use then pressing 'O' when I wanted to select the end of the part of the footage i wanted to use.

After this as you can see above I decided to add some sound to my film, to do this I decided to take some sound clips that were relevant to my film from the media sound collection library nd add them to parts of my sequence where needed.

When the sequence and sound were sorted I then started to think about the quality of my film and how to edit the image to improve it. Therefore I decided to start to edit the colour balance and brightness and contrast. I started by taking each different scene and adjusting the brightness and contrast of each one so that the quality was alot better and the outcome was a brighter and clearer image.

Following this I started to use transitions to make the rougher parts of my film follow on more smoothly from each other; for most parts where I added transitions I used the dissolve effect because I thought it was the most subttle transition and didn't look like rushed editing.

When I finished adding transitions I then added a border to my film to make it stand out more and look more attractive to the viewer.

And finally the last thing I did was add credits to the end of my film, I did this by adding the type effect which allows you to write your credits and choose how they are shown e.g. I chose them to be scrolled down the screen.