Editing

Editing the video
For our group, editing was about the only thing that always went right. First of all, our group always had the opportunity to edit, and although there was only 6 computers in which had the software to edit the video, there was always enough for every group in the class. Most of the members in our group contributed to the editing, and did their fair share of it, resulting in various ideas and shots that would be used. Some small issues occurred such as opening the file could take up to 10 minutes, as lots of people would be trying to access the link storage the videos we’re saved under. However, this was only a small problem and didn’t really trouble our group greatly, as all other groups experienced this and there was no way to overcome it. As a group, we thought the editing went well, most of us understood how to do it, it was a great way to put all our ideas together if we took it in turns and good for feedback of the rest of the group.

Editing the DVD cover and Advert.
Editing the DVD cover and Advert in photo shop seen out group encounter more problems than we did editing the video. First of all, some of our group wanted to do the DVD cover and Advert as a group and some wanted to do it individually. We decided that the people wanting to work as a group did and people wanting to work individually did after checking with the teachers. Editing the Advert for us took a long time. First of all, we took pictures of 52 individual playing cards. However, we took the photos on an angle without knowing so when placing the photos side by side, it took a long time to straighten them all up. It also took a long time to cut out the background of the cards because we took the cards against a yellow backgrounds hoping they would cut out fairly easily but some of the cards blended into the background. It took around 2/3 hours to cut the cards out so this was fairly time consuming. The initial idea for the DVD cover had to be totally changed. IF you look at the first draft, the idea was to take certain cards, take members of the band and put the head on top of the cards. However, the heads we’re far to small in the case of the joker card, and did not look as how I imagined. We also thought a skull would look good blended into the background as the card ace of spades means death. However, the skull we used was not an original image and could not be used. We decided we did not have enough time to draw something complicated like a skull so we had a total rethink about the whole DVD cover. Upon designing a new one, we all agreed in out group it looked better than before, so we we’re very happy with the final outcome.