1st March media lesson - what we learned

Since all of our filming at Bentley Road was finished, we figured that this lesson would be a good time to start uploading our footage and editing it. While doing this, we noticed there were a lot of retakes of some of the shots we did, so we needed to pick the best shots out of the ones we had and put them together in the film so that there was good continuity. This was also a lesson where the soundtrack had to be worked on, so we divided the responsibilities between us, with Aaron and Alex working on the soundtrack and Jolyon and Hope working on the actual editing. This worked well because we all took to our responsibilities and made sure we did the work we were supposed to do. However, when we were putting the shots together we realised that because we were workig with shots that had been taken on different days, we had to make sure there was nothing in any of the shots that would mess up the continuity of the film eg costume changes, changes in actors' appearances, objects, etc. Because of this, it became clear to us that what we learned from this lesson is that it's important to make sure that you try to keep your location as similar as possible to how it was the last time you filmed there, because if you don't this can make some of your shots useless. Thankfully we were able to maintain continuity with most of our shots anyway, but from the work we did, this is what we realised.