Editing, Editing and Uhm..EDITING! :)

Okay. So this week, as a group, we fully focused on the editing aspects as well as our own individual roles. We did this, because we all need to get some real experience, some "texture" for the feel of editing. This is very important as we all can handle the editing of our shots, just in case Raza, in charge of editing, isn't here. Me, Sameria and Suhail wanted to know how to edit specific shots, how to spread them out to make them longer in time and space.
So, now atleast we can all agree that we all try to help Raza out for his huge and time-consuming tole. Thus, we all tried to sustain our roles further on and to re-iterate, we all have paid full attention to our given roles for perfection and accuracy. For instance, I carried on working on our voice-over, from the support from my group.
Here are a few pictures we took on Monday 24th January as we all started Editing as Phill and Raza guided us through it;

Not only, have we all tried out editing our individual shots, but also we've managed to complete our voice-over! The voice over is now final and completed thanks to everyone, including, Sam, Michael, Raza. Sameria, Suhail and Phill! In this lesson (Monday25th Jan 2010), I managed to grab Raza in order to complete the voice over because the only remainder to be finished would be Raza's voice over, we had to record his voice again because onscreen, his voice came out distorted due to the different camera, we used. Thus, in order to get going and to use up our lesson time, me and Sameria asked Raza to come with us to the studio room where our sound recording can take place, with Phill's help, as luckily Phill was available at the time. Whilst the three of us were completing the sound aspects of our trailer, Suhail was editing the shots which were to be edited, with Sarah's help, at the same time so as a group we were all multi=-tasking to save time. Here are a few pictures we took of everyone whilst recording our Final VOICE-OVER:

Here, Raza was provided a script, from me and Sameria(which we created on the spot because in the actual clip, Raza was told to improvise, with no script to provide a more "natural" effect), and he is practising his lines with emotion. He is speaking into the studip microphone to make the overall effect sound more professional.

With Phill's help, we tried to record Raza's oice over within 10 minutes as we wanted to get the voice-over completed before we focus on the editing as a group. Luckily, Phill adjusted the microphone and the studio for our use and benefit. Although, having recorded with the microphone, the sound also came out "boxed" and with an echo as it's a small rather empty room, but later on, I will focus on this and try and improvise the sound.

Here's me giving Raza the thumbs up! ^__^ Because, he was nervous at the time, as was everyone else who was recorded in the voice-over due to the nature of being recorded in front of other. Thus, to boost his self-confidence, we all tried to remain quiet and remain focused. :) Overall, Raza was pretty sustained and focused in what we had to do as we're clearly running out of time and this has to be done and over with, :)

This is Phill adjusting the sound levels in terms of dynamics, tempto and speed of the voice Raza was transmitting through the microphone. To re-iterate, Phill was teaching us through steps in how to record a voice-over to reduce reverb and echo. Thus, we were learning whilst working which was an advantage as for next time, we can record with ease without Phill's help or assistance.