Edit Diary - Day 3

Today we continued to edit our opening, we sorted out the beginning so it is more snappy and now it looks better.
We found out half way through the lesson that our clip was to be no longer than 2 minutes, this caused a problem for us as our opening was past 2 minutes before it was finished. We managed to cut it down, it was easy as we could chop small part off lots of clips - the small changes made the big difference.
We may have found a solution to our time lapse problem. The whole thing is 1 hour long, so the computer is trying to read an hours worth of footage in 18 seconds, this is why we crashed every time. We had to make the decision to make the footage shorter anyway as we were over the 2 minute mark so we cut down to where the footage is quite dark. We will be using about 30 minutes of footage instead. If we chop this 30 minutes in lots of small parts, 2 minutes each for instance, the computer should be able to cope with the footage. Unfortunately the process of cutting the footage will be a long and laborious one, but overall I think it is worth it so our thriller looks as good as it can be.
We also had a first taster of the music, and the group agreed that it fits well. It will create a real tense atmosphere when you are watching. We won't be using a convention soundtrack, strings and low rumbling, but a dub soundtrack.
A problem we encountered this day was that our computer crashed near the beginning of the lesson. All our initial cuts were lost, this did not take long to rectify but it was annoying and put us back 10 minutes.