Reasons For Our Editing Choices.

During the editing process, we found that there were areas of our video that appeared to jump in between cuts we'd made which we now felt needed a smoother transition. To achieve this, we used a 'cross dissolve' effect where necessary. There was one instance in particular where we had filmed our actress going into and coming out of the bathroom door in two seperate shots. We found later when reviewing our footage that we had accidentally changed the postitioning of the camera between these two shots. This meant that when the two clips were cut together, the overall frame didn't match up, and because the idea behind this particular cut was to show a passing of time, the effect had been lost. However, we made some slight changes to the angle of one of the frames to match it up with the one that followed, and added a cross dissolve from one frame to the other. Not only did this make the transition smoother, but it added nicely to the overall effect of time passing. We then used this same technique for our actress leaving the house through the front door. We chose to do this because again we wanted to show how time had moved on. In one shot, we see our actress leaving the house and closing the door behind her, with the camera's point of view on the inside of the door. In the next shot we see her in a totally different location, coming out of a shop door, this time with the camera positioned on the other side (the outside) of the door. Again, by using a cross dissolve between the two frames we are creating the effect of passing time, and also giving a nice transition into the next scene. Altogether we found that what we had filmed fitted well together, with the exception of one or two problems which were relatively easily fixed. Apart from this we only ever needed to use editing tricks and effects to make our film sequence visually more exciting or attractive to the eye.