Editing

After finishing filming, it was now time for the editing process. This was perhaps the most challenging part of the experience as it required a lot of effort. This was due to the fact that we had to go through roughly 20 minutes of footage in order to find the takes that we liked and didn't like. As mentioned in a previous post,  we originally we had a flashback sequence that would've made up around 40% of our original idea for the movie. However, we cut this all out due to this footage seeming like unnecessary "padding". We also felt that it made the opening seem a little too long so we decided to completely cut it out.

We used two types of editing software. We used Imovie which is software that comes with all Apple computers. The other was a trial for Final Cut Pro, a more professional editing software. We used both sorts of software. We found that Final Cut Pro was better due to it having more effects but Imovie was a lot more accessible and easy to use due to using it for our original preliminary exercise.