Prelim Post Production Blog!!!!!!

Today we started editing a preliminary production. We began by selecting the appropriate shots from our various takes of each angle, and placing them what is known as a 'Log Bin'. We view each footage becuase there could be errors made either by the camera man, or the actors in which the shots might confuse the audience. To get a Log Bin you go to FILE---->NEW----->BIN. We then renamed the bin preliminary. Once we had selected all your favourite shots, we then had to drag the cilps on to the line in order of the storyboard. This is because we wanted the story to make sense and have some sense of continuity, this process is called sequential editing. We then trimmed down each individual shot, so that they could interlink each other with relevance and to not look disorganized. We needed to consider who we wanted the audience to favor, in terms of actors, this would then be determined by how much screen time we allow them. I believe that our actors recieved fairly balanced screen time, due to the fact we gave JJ the establishing shot and Luke the close up, however if i were to pick the actor the audience would be in favor of it would be Luke. This conclusion i make was not due to how much screen time the actors were given, but simply due to their performance. JJ didnt deliver enough facial expressions for audience to formulate an opinion about him, Luke did and a level of sympathey was summoned up from the viewers.