Editing: Day Seven

During this editing session we focused on making our scenes shorter, we got constructive criticism for this during our rough cut presentation so we listened and decided to cut it down in term of narrative so that the scenes would be more suitable, especially at the beginning of the film where our characters 'getting ready' scene is too long.

Firstly we were cutting by just simply shortening the clips by dragging it in however during this session we came across a good tool called the 'Razor Blade Tool' which was accessible from the Final Cut Pro toolbar.

The process of using this tool was to hover over the section you wanted to cut, a line was drawn by the editing software here to show where it would cut off. From here when you click a red mark was created which split the clip into different sections, from here you would just click on one of them and highlight it and press 'Delete' on the keyboard as shown below.

By doing this I was able to get more precise cuts for the film as instead of dragging it I could align it with the suitable time where I wanted to cut it. It was also more convenient as it would move everything following to still be continuous with the clip.