editing evaluation

My editiing skills evolved this year, back in september i possesed basic editing skills but these quickly developed thanks the my 4 hour film challenges. My edit of the door was my first major development in editing, here i learned more about creating continuity by matching up shots of different rooms to make it seem like things were connected and the movement from one room to another was seemless. this film is where i put to use my only notible vido editing skill i knew prior to september which was using colours to help create a mood, my edit of the door used a cold blue colour tome to help envoke the hostility and unfriendlyness of the place which set it apart from my teams edits.here i also learned about layering visual effects and filters, this was the first time i modified the frame rate of footage to create an effect which is somthing i'd later do i most of my other films. At one point i encounterd a digital rendering problem which caused my effects to be distorted, after speaking with the tecnichian i learned to modify my premier settings to fit the device i was using and prevent these issues. the next growth in my editing came in my silent film edit, once again i edited the frame rate and added filters to make the footage look like footage frim the silent era, this practise allowed me to improve the skills i learned in the previous edit. Another method i used to help achive the silent film effect was speeding up the footage to emulate how the projectects would play the old film quickly and make it look like everything was moving quickly. this film was also my first attempt at split screen which is somthing id later dedicate a whole film to, my attempt in this edit was flawed but i was able to mask issues such as lighting and satuartion using the grey scale and filters. unusual perspective was a culmination of all my visual techniques, here i was again edited the frame rate and added multiple filters, in this film i played about with lighting and angles and marked the return of my skills at colour correction the change the tone greatly, this film was one i presented to my assessor for my uni application where it recived the comment of being very sam raimi. multi me was my final 4 hour film challenge and whilst it is definetly one of the least polished of my films it accomplished its goal of helping me perfect the split screen effect. here i did split screen at both close up and far back with 3 of me in the same shot, the shadows were difficult particulaly in the close ups so i understood the importace of fill lights to prevent that. i also developed my colour correction skills here as instead of simply changing a mood i had to modify two existing tones to match each other which proved tricky when the light would cause the vibrance to change mid shot. the skills i learned this year were used when making my film studdies film but a new editing skill that i had to learn for this film was audio editing, i was aiming for better audio quality with this film and mostly achieved it though a couple shots still suffer badly from it, here i changed the levels of volume whilst keeping sound floor low. my editing skills evolved greatly this year and i learned various usefull skills which i would later go on to imprive throughout the year