Editing

Once we had filmed what we thought was every shot we needed for our film opening, it was now time to begin editing. Originally, we began editing on the inbuilt iMovie software on the Apple Mac computers in our Media Suite.

We soon discovered, due to the genre of our film being Sci-Fi, that the filters on iMovie were insufficient.  The only choice we had was to choose new editing facilities and as a result of this we purchased the programme Final Cut Pro, which is a much more advanced editing software that included many more filters and sounds that could help enhance our piece. 

This allowed us to create a much more professional-looking film opening and to really put finer detail into the editing. Here is a time lapse of the film being edited on Final Cut Pro:

Because our film is Sci-Fi, we have had to put an immense amount of time into editing it in the most effective and appropriate way. This has included very fast jump cuts and unsettling filters to really give it an unnatural feel. So far we are very pleased with the way our film opening is looking but we are unsure as of yet as to whether we did in fact get all the footage we need to complete the opening.