Editing our dialogue sequence

When editing the dialogue we used premier pro. We firstly selected the shots we wanted and put them into a log bin. We then cut the beginning and end bit out from when the camera was rolling but there was no action. Then dragged them onto the timeline and cut the shots where we wanted them. We used one of the soundtracks from one of the shots as we couldn't overlap them, and synced the video to the audio for all the shots. 

A skill i learnt in this editing session is how to link and unlink clips from the audio and video. This is so you can put an audio to a video that it wasn't originally with it, or vice versa. 

At first we found it quite hard getting everything in the right place, but then we got the hang of it and edited the rest of the scene. 

A mistake we made was putting the shot we wanted to use over the top of the master shot in the timeline, so if we took it away to change it, that part of the master shot wasn't there and there was a gap.  Now we know to make sure that each shot is in a different channel so they don't get in the way of each other.

Something we could have done differently and would have make our scene a lot better was not having the actors wear masks, however due to the circumstances, we had to keep them on. It made editing very hard as we couldn't lip sync. 

 I think we should have longer periods of time with each person talking and not keep switching between the two so frequently, as when they both speak a lot for short periods of time it is hard to know when to cut to each person as you can't cut every time. 

In our actual sequence I think we will do it in smaller sections when editing it and not drag everything onto the timeline in one go, as it got quite confusing. 

Overall I think that I learnt a lot from this editing session and am getting a lot more confident with using the programme.