Editing Our Preliminary Task

As this was our first time filming a proper sequence it was also our first time editing material, which meant the quality wasn't brilliant but I learnt a lot from the experience.
We edited our sequence using Final Cut Pro and the first thing we learnt to do on this program was to check in and out; by clicking the cog on the left of the screen and selecting 'Check Out', we then had to save the work to our Desktop. To check out, the order is reversed to save the work back on to the server.
We learnt about and created Logging Bins and learnt the appropriate names for them. The Bin named "Rushes" is for the best clips and the ones we wanted to work with and the Bin named "Logs" is for all the clips, to keep them in one place.

When editing I enjoyed the challenge of trying to make the clips fit together seamlessly and this was quite a large challenge for us as the continuity was quite bad. This meant that when trying to edit clips together the action didn't fit so we had to spend a long time trying to cover up these mistakes. Things such as one of our actresses not standing on the marker meant that between shots she appeared to be jumping around the room.
I thought our idea matched the storyboard well and I thought we made the most thrilling sequence we could with the script we were given.
I suggested an extra shot of the victims hand and head hitting the floor (match on action) which worked really well because of two things; number one, it was used to cover up a continuity error; and number two; it made the sequence more interesting and stylised.
If I could redo the preliminary task I would use more shots, such as the over the shoulder shots so that we could incorporate the 180 degree rule. I would also have spent more time making the sound run through the shots more fluidly as in some parts, due to poor continuity, speech was cut off. We started to run the speech through shots to cover up these issues however we ran out of time.
We worked well as a team and each had a go at editing and I feel we all have a good understanding of how to use Final Cut Pro. I'm keen to film another sequence and practice my editing skills to ensure that our thriller is a really good, well edited and throughout piece of work.