Organising the footage

Once taking our footage off the camera, we sifted through it to separate the shots we needed from the shots we didn't. The ones we needed, we extracted and put into a folder named 'Opening 2'. We then opened them one by one to see what scene it said on the whiteboard and then used this to label the clip. We did this for every scene. The screenshot below shows the folder we made which now contains all the relevant footage we need to start editing.

Next, we put all the clips we didn't need into a folder called 'Mistakes'. This folder contains takes of scenes that went wrong and also extra shots we took in case we need to fill spaces or because other shots are too short, they are basically spares and backups of the shots we are using. The screenshot below shows the folder we made which now contains all the unneeded footage.

The last folder we made was called 'Opening copy' and basically contained our title sequence and the pictures taken on set of us filming. This can be seen in the screenshot below.

By sorting all of the footage, pictures, and titles out as soon as we uploaded them onto the computer, it allowed us to have all of our resources organized and ready to import into Final Cut to start editing.