editing progress

So far with editing we have come across some problems, these being; firstly the first day of shooting was to dark as we filmed early in the morning. This also had the problem of it raining so when we came to edit the footage it was bad quality and needed to be re-shot. So when we re-shot this footage we did it later in the day and used to the editing software to turn the contrast down and make it look darker than it was. This effect worked but we had to play with the settings so that it looked the same as clips from out original shoot.
After uploading out footage onto the editing software we deleted useless footage and then placed the footage we had in a time order. We decided that placing some transaction between the clips would make it easier when we came to finalising the footage at the end. Some shots we had difficulties editing were the time-lapse shots, we did not realise that we had to have a shot of the empty ally so when the we faded out one clip using the opacity tool the other clip could be faded in. To overcome this we cross faded two shots so when one faded out the other faded in, giving the same effect with what shots we had, saving us having to film more footage.
Other problems we are having is making sure the each shot is not to long as otherwise it will become boring to the viewer, to make sure this didn’t happen we used lots of quick cuts which should be in time with the beats of our track.
Looking further into our editing we were having problems with our strobe, this is a problem as the lighting conditions were slightly different as the cameras would not pick up enough light. To overcome this we turned on a light but as the shots became lighter the strobe didn’t show up on the characters faces, we turned the contrast down but this didn’t help very much. So through the editing we used quick cuts to get between light shots, this has worked out but is still slightly different from our plan.
We realised that just cutting between each shot made the video boring, to overcome this we used dissolves and fades to cut between shots. The fades that we used were the fade to black and then back to a shot. This worked well as it fits in with the music but also allows you to change backgrounds without making it to obvious. Dissolving shots meant that long shots can be cut down allowing the same background to be there but the character moving from one place to the other. This also worked really well as we had a static camera when filming these shots.