After completing the LinkedIn Learning exercise,
I went back to my project to make some final edits. The sight wasn’t that pretty – my timeline was quite messy and the clips had a lot of keyframes added to them that I no longer wanted. But some of the moments in the project still looked really good, and were combinations of clips that I wanted to use again, so I moved everything down the timeline so I could look at it again later.
(Which was definitely worth it, as I could just drag sections that I wanted to reuse back into the track).
This is the clip at the end of my last editing session…
The first thing that I did was check the audio track a final time… there was a 
moment in which the examiner speaks the first sentence, and then a brief pause, and then continues with the next sentence. It is a matter of personal preference, but I felt as though there wasn’t enough time between the two sentences. Moving the second sentence back would have thrown off all of the audio and timing, but I was able to cut the dialogue track and move it forwards instead – which prevented the other audio from needing to be adjusted.
The new track could then be exported into Premiere without any issue.
Then I went back to the start, moving through section by section and adjusted each clip by clip, as well as adding colour grading. Where I could, I also removed footage that couldn’t be seen, because I was working in 4K and after colour grading and adding more effects, my laptop started to struggle.
Some of the edits were really minor – like above, not having four clips over the top of each other, because it was getting too busy.
The second set of videos show the bigger change I made… and that is moving away from having the whole film anchored by the high-angle wide shot. Though I was anxious to do this at the start – as I wanted the single shot grounding the entire film, constantly returning to the distance and isolation that that shot instilled.
