Our brief specified the use of match on action and shot reverse shot which are editing techniques. We had filmed the correct shots that would enable us to use these techniques (which was planned in our story board) and it was now the matter of choosing which takes were the most suitable to be used for the finished clip.
The software we used for editing is Adobe Premiere Pro CS6. We chose to use Adobe as it is rather user friendly- it was easy to import clips and identify the basic editing tools (crop/trim/adjust brightness for video and mute/adjust volume for audio.) Another bonus of using Adobe is its wide range of special effects and professional appeal. For example- in our brief- we were able to separate the audio from a video clip and increase the volume so the dialogue would be heard over our non diagetic sound.
Our chosen non diagetic sound is a royalty free track from incompetech.com called Steel and Seething
Once we had selected our clips we started to edit them together, keeping our brief specifications in mind. We used match on action twice- when the interrogator walked into the cupboard and when the interrogator hit the hostage- and we used shot reverse shot to depict the conversation between the interrogator and the hostage.
We decided to not use any filters on the clips as a lot of the preset filters on Adobe Premiere had a bad 'reaction' with our lighting in the clips. The shadows appeared as blocks of black instead of having faded edges (making them more subtle.) The shadows and the illuminated faces of the characters looked more natural with the original lighting (albeit improvised phone torch lighting!)
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