Hit the road editing

I edited and designed the intro for hit the road. This is the storyboard I designed and that the graphic designer produced each scene. I then put what I was given into Premier pro and created a short stop motion of the car. In this storyboard you can see a car being drive round the mountain until it finally stopped and the engine opened and hit the road came out in letters. Below is a copy of the stop motion before I colour graded it. I had to colour grade it because as you will see, the first couple of scenes are the wrong colour and the wrong quality.

Here are all the scenes for the intro stop motion. These were when we printed them out after Ned had designed them to make sure they all looked good and made sense. Once we had created and gathered all these scenes, we implemented them into after effects to try and play about to figure out what worked best and then worked with Matthew to see what he wanted as he got the final decision.

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Here you can see the timeline of the editing. I was given three camera angles and made sure to implement those into my editing. I also edited and created the intro for the series. Here you can see where we used the external microphone to give the series a higher quality sound. This meant we had to sync the sound to the videos and we also made sure to cross fade the sound every clip so it sounded smooth and so there wouldn't be any clips where the sound sounded odd.

What processes of editing did I use?

During the editing process I used many different processes. I most commonly used:

The Jump Cut

A cut in which two sequen8al shots of the same subject are taken from camera positions that vary only slightly if at all.

The Split Edit

An edit from one shot to another where the cut to the audio and video happen at different times.
The audio either leads or trails the cut.
This is often done to enhance the aesthetics or flow of the film. Without split edits, a conversation between two people can feel like a tennis match.
Split edits are commonly known as J cuts or L cuts, depending on whether the audio is leading or trailing the cut.

The L And J Cut

In the L cut, the audio trails the cut. from the preceding shot overlaps the picture from the following shot, so that the audio cuts after the picture, and continues playing over the beginning of the next shot.
•In the J cut, the audio leads the cut. The audio from a following scene overlaps the picture from the preceding shot, so that the audio portion of the later shot starts playing before its picture as a lead-in to the visual cut.
These are most commonly known as a voiceovers.
This was essential in editing this series as many shots when looking at the engine needed a voice over so people knew what was going on.