Account of editing peliminary task:

We used final cut pro that were run on a G5 Mac computer. All the editing took place on a timeline that was very easily modified and adjusted. The rushes were digitized from tape on to fire wire hard drives which were portable. We then looked through all the shots deciding on the ones we needed to keep and the ones we needed to discard. After deciding that we logged the footage we needed and discarded the bad takes. The best shots were dropped down onto the timeline to be trimmed and adjusted which includes; slowed, color adjusted, sped up etc. We can then after doing this manipulate the sound by importing music or sound effects etc. which we didn’t do. This allows a narrative to be constructed into a logical sequence. The shots that we discarded were the shots were either the actors made a mistake, if we broke the 180 degrees rule and thus compromised continuity. We had to take out one were one of the actors began to laugh. The shots were trimmed, adjusted and extended to enable smooth continuity editing that generated the illusion of a continues event which was our simple two person conversation.