Second lesson of final piece editing.

Our second lesson of editing went quite well. Seeing as we had all of our filming now done, we could put all of our cuts and edits in to make it just how we wanted it.
We all sat round the computer, and seeing as Rob knows how to actually use the programme it was easier for him to just press the buttons as we all put in our opinions.
We knew that we wanted our flashbacks to be sudden and shocking and therefore needed to make sure that our dissolves and switches to the flashbacks portrayed this. We first tried dissolves and dips to black, but none of us really thought it was enough to get across the idea that the character was just thinking back to the night in hand and realising how bad it was as it all came back to her.
We then found a dip to white and thought that was better than the black as it gave more of a shocking effect. After putting these in where we wanted as Ellie walked through the fields and then thought of the night before, I didn't think it was a good idea for us to have the flashbacks and the real-time the same colour. So, instead I wanted it sort of a dark blue to make it murky and as though it stood out. Yet Rob told me we couldn't do that so we settled with black and white which made it stand out anyway.
After the lesson we still had a bit to do but were pleased with how far we got and just need to decide on a few more edits as to where they will go and also choose sound for the backing of the flashbacks.