Group project log

Hi Bloggers, Mike here...
This morning Lloyd came over to my place ( above is the view from my bedroom window) to help edit the interviews for the group project as I mentioned to him I was finding it difficult to structure them. So at 10 am we began going through the rushes deciding on what we did and didn't want to use in the film.
I noticed when editing one of he interviews that although there were some over the shoulder shots, opposing ones seemed to be lacking. We found a way around this by using footage know as "nodding" very simply shots taken of the subject nodding and also in the interview with the tennis coach we used cutaways of his racket as a bridge to shorten the interview as we felt it was too long. One thing we did find is we felt fatigued quite quickly, editing can be tiresome and laborious so to combat this we took a break halfway through the day and did something completely different. This helped us to come back to the task with fresh eyes. We edited in shifts with one at the controls and the other overseeing. This, we found, was a good way to work although at point we had conflicting ideas. We worked around this by creating duplicate sequences so we could try out our ideas without affecting the overall piece.