I have edited the videos from Wednesday’s practice, because I had a class afterwards and I was exported the video in hurry, I had uploaded to the google drive without checking the quality about the final cut. After going back to home and watched the final cut again, I found out the video is not in very fluent playing and it is not the same as what I watched in the editing room. It is weird from shot moved to another shot.

Another thing is we were shooting in the downstairs editing room, there were so many mirrors around us and it is really difficult to avoid our reflection in the shots and we tried our best to avoid it. I had searched how to figure out this situation after the shooting practice.

However, there are at least two other options for getting a shot in which the camera should, by rights, be visible but isn’t: one is using visual effects (optical or CGI) for the reflection. The other was used by James Cameron in Terminator 2: Cameron wanted a tracking shot (camera moving sideways) behind Linda Hamilton removing a chip from Arnold’s head in front of a mirror. If done with a mirror, the camera would have been visible as it moved around behind the actors. Rather than do this with effects, the set was built so that the mirror was actually a window, and on the other side was a complete mirror-image version of the set on the camera side. Schwarzenegger and Linda sat on the far side facing the camera, and a fancy Arnold puppet and Linda’s twin sister sat with their backs to the camera, mimicking all of the moves of their counterparts.

As the final shot, because we only shot this scene in one shot and I have no choice to edit it.