Editing The Classroom Scene

During todays lesson, my group started to edit our footage. We used the software Adobe Premiere on the Apple Mac. Our first scene is the classroom scene, so we started to edit that by choosing our establishing shot and how we are going to incorporate the close-ups of each of the four girls to show their boredom. At first we had to cut down the amount of footage we had and chose to keep the bits that we felt had good angles and shots. We did this by creating a list where we noted down footage that we wanted to keep and as we did this we deleted footage we didn't need so that it was less time-consuming.

The beginning of our video starts off in the classroom before the song actually starts, so we need to ensure that the establishing sequence is only a  few seconds long (approximately 8 secs) to keep the audience engaged. We managed to get quite a lot edited and distinguished between the order of our clips.We sorted out our footage by putting the classroom shots first, followed by Vanessa's, Sam's, my scene and Megi's scene in our individual locations as this is the order in which the lyrics are sung. Below are a few pictures of us editing!

Sarah and me looking at our footage identifying what needs to be moved where.

Me and Sarah again watching my part on the screen where I start to go into 'dream mode'.

Zarah, myself and Sarah.

Editing Sam's part where she drifts off into 'dream mode'.

Our group watching Vanessa's part as we end on Vanessa's mid close-up before the song starts, so therefore we need to ensure that we give the clip enough time to fade in the dream so that the audience can understand the narrative.