Evaluation of my editing skills

Overall I think I did quite well on my editing part. However even though I did most of the editing I have learnt different editing skills from Sammah such as adding certain effects ( creating blurry images, fading etc). The first day for my editing was an nervous day for me because I had never edited and I was instructed to start editing our first few scenes in the film.  I felt I needed more help and so I decided to ask one of the mentor to help and teach me some of the techniques. As obvious I didn't learn it in the first day but it took me one week to be confident enough to edit.

My friend Genevia has helped me a lot in becoming expert with editing in filming. Whenever she used to go editing I used to observe and wrote down notes on to which technique, effects or ways she would use for her film. My partner sammah also helped me in giving me ideas about the use of effects we could use in our film and hence I allowed Sammah to do the effect part for editing. My journey throughout my editing has been excellent as I have learnt different skills and gained knowledge about editing more than I needed to know. One of my skills that has improved within my editing journey is my time management skills this is because we had one day to edit and I had only 6 hours to finish my editing as well as adding soundtracks . I divided my free time and how much I should spend on each section . For instance for the park location I finished the editing within 1 hour as for the other locations such as Oxford street it took me 30 minute. And for most of the scenes me and sammah edited together but adding few soundtrack sammah did this part and then when I came I edited by how long and how should the music play within certain scenes. 

In order to know more about the effects I could use for my filming during my break time I had , I used it effectively to learn more about editing by myself. Such as I played around with adjusting the lighting and colour correction, by doing this I could have added different shade tints to the film. But then we wanted to keep our film simple and elegant without adding too many effects even though its a comedy genre film. when It came to editing soundtracks before I had to downloaded it, the first few sites I used to convert it to MP3 didn't work so I had to search for another. Downloading into MP3 was bit of risky for me as some down-loaders website had virus and I it took me an hour to search fora safe website to download. 

When I’d downloaded it I listed them in orders so I can show it to my partner sammah and get her agreement. so it was long process  dragging & editing, to the audio bar and then re-rendered it. . I found this process for a few moments quite stressful as I had to keep renaming scenes ,adding new scenes and changing them again with the old scenes etc. However I am happy with the final outcome. As a result I felt  I've learnt to time scale my work better and now have skills and experience in film final pro . Sometime I felt I should make it more professional standard but then our film timing was short and I realised If I had more time ton shoot I would shoot some few scenes to polish the editing further. 

As I'm experienced with editing for films(I'm comfortable with the different types of editing tools) I could help people who need advices or help them editing.So overall I believe I did well for my editing part which gave our film a good impression and this is evidenced by our audience as there will be reviews of audiences.