The first step in our Post-production phase of the film was to log all of the footage with key and recognisable names so that they could be called upon later in filming. With a larger production where shots are planned to a tee this is usually done through renaming the shots with their appropriate shot number and letter, for instance '3b_1' would translate to being the first take of the second shot in the third scene, when an editor is editing the third scene he would then simply import all files beginning with 3 and continue from there. However, as our shots were not totally fixed in place and we were not aware of this industry technique at the time we named our shots by describing the action in the scene and splitting them into two folders; Clips Day 1 & Clips Day 2. Renaming them based on the action inside the clip was very helpful during the editing process as it allowed me to search for keywords such as 'leaves' or parts of dialogue like 'Who are you?'. I did this in conjecture with my shot list (shown below).
We didn't just have visual footage however, we had also recorded audio files of dialogue and sound effects on a 'zoom h4' handy recorder which registered the files as wav files with no names. To avoid confusion we decided to leave these in their linear state as we were able to remember which audio would sync to each clip that required it. This was the easiest and safest choice for the audio files and made editing very smooth and simple when importing the footage and sound in to our editing timeline. However while editing the names of the dialogue would not have worked we had also produced some sound effects which we named according to what they were supposed to sound like for instance a heart beat sound effect we called simply 'heart beat.wav'.
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