The Editing Process- The Hangover

After the completion of the filming, we all agreed that we did very well indeed. We just had to wait to get back to school to begin the editing process. The first lesson back we all watched the different sections of the video. At first glance there were a few apparent problems. Firstly in some of the shots we filmed later into the evening, the lighting had faded dramatically, and the artificial light of Aimee's conservatory wasn't quite enough to support our filming. The second problem was that the shots we filmed outside were very windy, and we couldn't actually hear what Chris was saying. 
As a group we sat down and thought about how we could combat these problems. Luckily Aimee and I have had experience in lip syncing. So we thought this would be a perfect opportunity to put our skills into practise. We had to find a time that Chris was free so we could record his voice then lip sync it with the video. Luckily this task was fairly easy, and we all agree that it looks very realistic. 
The second problem of the dimmed lighting, was a little bit harder to deal with. We used the editing softwear to try and lighten it. However we didn't realise quite how dark the shots were. Every time we tried to lighten it the shots became incredibly gritty and grainy. We have all learnt now to make sure that we don't run out of lighting when it comes to filming our final film opening. 
Despite these two problems there wasn't much else that went wrong. Of course there were some more difficult bits and bobs. After watching back the real Hangover opening sequence we realised that in some cases there was speech over shots of other people. This is something we didn't account for when filming. Luckily we quickly worked out how to unlink images and sounds then overlap them. 
It was quickly clear that we were going to produce a piece of work that we were all proud of. As a first attempt we believe we have really tried our best and have learnt all the skills we need for future projects.  We're all glad that a few minor things went wrong, because now we can really learn from them.