Labelling your material and storing your rushes.

Labelling and storing your rushes and images in the right place is essential, when it comes to editing you need to have your rushes and images labelled properly so that the editors know that they are using the right footage for the scene that they are editing. Previously when you had film reels you would have a person personally employed to label cans of film, and making a record of what is what so that all f the paper work can then be taken and synced up later on.

So you used to have that they would use numbers so you’d have CC- for Canterbury College as that is where I study, then you’d have 0001 for the first clip; this the computer can then register and link up what you were trying to find. this process was like most other old fashioned ways of the film process, it was very time consuming however now that most things are digital you can use hard drives and memory cards/sticks to store your footage on. So the use of those numbers aren’t as necessary and so you can label them by scene number and give a few notes to help you out, which is what I did (see above) and so the use of the numbers is not needed as often.
Storing your rushes is also very important both digitally and analogue, it is especially very important when it comes to the analogue world because; if the film is not stored in the right conditions than the film is going to be ruined and unusable, for instance it is not allowed to see the light of day again until it is processed or the film becomes useless with further storage problems such as the humidity coming into play.

The digital world still depends on storing the rushes in the right place, as you have to store your rushes on the hard drive that you plan on editing on. Due to the fact that if you store your rushes on say the memory card that you have them backed onto, they aren’t going to be on the hard drive for working on and so you won’t be able to edit them together.