Editing Process

                 In day one of editing the group and I got together and during class we decided on all the clips we were going to use. We dragged all of them from the bins to the timeline and established an order for them by arranging them using the select tool by clicking and dragging each clip. Then we worked with how long each clip would last by right clicking on the certain clip and working out the time. On day two we made minor arrangements to what we had, messing with the orders of the clips, at this point we were still working with the picture frames. We also found out how to freeze frame on clips, so we did it on one of the pictures the spy took. On the same day I came to the editing suite by myself and I did some major changes in a new log in order to later show my group what I've done and see if they would agree to use my edit. I changed the order of plenty of shots, and I included more shots of the spy taking the pictures switching back and forth to his point of view and shots of him spying as opposed to the last edit where we would see the wife in the car once and then everything else would be from the camera's perspective. I also made all the freeze frame shots in the sequence including the one of the car, the one of the envelope, the one of the killer, and a few others. I did this by cutting the clip where I wanted it to pause and cutting it again, one frame before my last cut using the key  "Command-C" as a shortcut to select the cut tool. I then right clicked on that one frame and selected "frame hold". Then I selecting "time" in the settings and typed in the time I wanted the frame to be held (1.5 s).
              The next day I showed my group what I have done and then liked it, for the exception that I wasn't able to include a freeze frame of the close-up of the number plate on the car. Later I also deleted all the audio by myself and kept only the bits that were usable. I ended up deleting all the audio with the exception of the click sound from when the spy pressed the button in the camera to take a picture. Then I used that audio cut and "copy pasted" it on all the places where the picture was taken.
                Then, we worked with the SFX of the edit. We used one of a camera lens linings on top of the bits where we had POV shots of the camera. We also added an SFX that made the central bit of the screen focused while leaving the edges of the screen unfocused. I then decided that we shouldn't have the SFX of the camera lens linings in the freeze frame bits where he took a picture. So by using the select tool I grabbed the end of the SFX on the timeline and dragged it back to tight before the moment when he took the picture. I did this to all the other SFX applied, making it seem as if it was an actual picture taken without any editing and processing on it.  And that was the editing process for my thriller opening sequence.