From Script to Screen #5 - The Edit

After months of brainstorming, writing, rewriting, casting, prop-gathering and shooting, we were finally ready to move into the very last step of production – Editing. Time-consuming, burdensome and most of all, annoyingly fiddly, it would soon cause us problems.

Having originally planned to use a program called Shotcut, a free software that allowed us to edit from the comfort of our homes, it quickly became untenable. As a free program, it seemed reasonably robust and polished, but as we began to edit our footage, it soon showed itself to be lacking in basic features, and while some issues did have work-arounds, they were fiddly and unnecessary at best.

A while later, it became clear we could not continue with Shotcut, and so we transferred the files over to  the much more professional(and premium) Adobe Premiere Pro. This allowed us to overcome many problems with easy solutions, with simple features such as superimposing text on screen becoming vastly more streamlined. Consequently, however, we would only be able to work on computers that had the software, such as those in the Catalyst, and we were therefore limited on how much we could work on the project.

As of writing, the film team are still shooting and editing parts of the film, and we hope to have it completed for its premiere on the 31st of March.