Editing reflection

So how to solve a problem like Maria? Well thank god I was not the problem here but La-Ra’s editing skills. I fully understand and recognize La-Ra's blog on the issue of editing week four’s interview exercise. With 45 minutes to shoot and uploading it online as we did with the Lenny Project, some skills were rusty for me too. Whilst I was interning La-Ra and Diane did this editing and I edited a project in TV journalism. I am glad I did it, and I could see which little but important things needs improvement before the final editing. Importing went fine, but the rendering did not – why on earth had I not set the time code properly. Lesson learned. Then there were the use of editing tools; while my poor partner clicked back and forth on the razorblade and the arrows she could not understand why the whole thing did not move at the same time – always use multi marker not the simple one, it overlaps both sound and footage. What we had improved on though was lighting; daylight overcast only – gives more time for color grading and sound level adjustment.