JC - Production: How we made our split screen

As will be the focus for the rest of our lessons' this term, today we edited our piece. Having made some decent progress during the lesson, myself and Timo stayed behind afterschool. It was here where our project took most development, as we made sure our editing was in keeping with the comical style that has become apparent in our piece. This was done by placing jump-cuts through scenes, so that our narrative is still linear, however the process of time progression has been sped-up without having to speed up our edit. This has allowed us to cut the amount of footage we have significantly, and in the next few days we should find it much easier to edit down our final footage.

The next change to our sequence was a technique that we wanted to use as soon as we started to develop our idea. Simon wished to use a split-screen to show the brief conversation between himself and Sarah. As usual, we were puzzled about how we would develop such an idea, and so called on the assistance of Mr Fiveash. He showed us the steps that we would need to take to turn this idea into a visual effect, which I have outlined below (visuals will appear shortly):

• To begin with, the two (or more) videos that are to be used need to be stacked in the two different video rows
• One portion of footage should primarily be selected. From here we then go to the edit section, and select the crop effect
• Decide how much you wish the clip to be cropped, by using the drag buttons
• Decide on the size of the shot (ie. 100%), by using the drag buttons
• Reposition the image to a favoured position, by using the motion control button
• Repeat the process for as many clips you wish to use in your split screen