When I started the year I was quite an amateur at editing, I had barely ever edited videos or used any editing software, and as for the majority of the start of the year when we created any videos during the 4 hour film challenges, someone else mainly edited the footage as I didn't feel confident in my editing skills to do such a task. It was only about in November when I actually tried to edit and that was when I also learnt to do speed ramping, which I then implemented into a 4 hour editing challenge where we needed to edit a video using found footage to a song.
My first proper attempt at editing a full video was for my new wave film video which is where I felt I did alright editing the footage together, however it was still an amateur edit since I didn't edit to any beat or use any transitions.
Plus this video had the voice over created to the edit not the edit to fit the voiceover so it meant I didn't need to edit as much apart from cutting the clips up.
My second more improved attempt was when I created a music video in which I ended up creating the edit to the song, meaning that I had to cut to the beat to make it seem more fluid. Now there weren't many issues with this as I was confident in cutting to the beat but, some cuts weren't timed to the beat and some shots were quite long which could've affected the final version of the music video slightly. My overall choice for editing this one was to edit it so that it had a non-linear narrative, beginning at the end and using flashbacks every now and then throughout to show the mans memory. With this video I also used some speed ramping techniques I had previously learned in the year, and I used it to speed up a long clip of a fly through of the home and at the end to slow down the death.
Personally I feel this was a huge improvement of my editing skills as I was able to edit to the beat of a song successfully while also maintaining a non linear narrative, especially since my previous attempts at editing stuff was just cutting up some footage, slapping it together with no effects or transitions and then doing a voice over or track over the top of it.
My final piece of editing I did was for my promotional video which was a much simpler video to edit out of most of them I have done, and this is mostly because of how my skills developed over the year. What I did was a a slow paced edit for a short advert with some instrumental music in the background. To help keep a nice pace for the video, I added in some fading transitions that faded from one shot into the next which just made the video smoother and nicer to watch in my opinion. As well as that this video was also my first attempt at some new stuff in editing such as adding static text to the video which was very simple to do, and I did because I needed a way of communicating with the audience through the video. The other thing I learnt was how to blur parts of the footage in the video, which was necessary as to hide some private information that showed up in the shots, and after watching a tutorial on how to do it, I believe I implemented blurring very well and successfully.
Overall throughout the year my editing has definitely come a long way and improved hugely, especially my confidence in editing as prior to the beginning of the year I tried to avoid doing editing because I felt it was difficult and frustrating, which I still stand by after editing software has continuously set out to delete footage and screw up any projects I've been working on. But going from simply cutting and placing clips together, to editing clips to a beat and adding effects, I feel I've done well in my skills progressing over time.
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