First editing session and problems with separate clips.

Today, i thought it was about time to start editing even though i have only filmed half of my OTS. I think editing this half will give me more time to edit the soon-to-be-filmed other half and gives me a chance to experiment with Imovie. I may also play with a computer file called 'final-cut' which lets you cut certain objects out of shots. It can also help you to add more effects that iMovie offers. I may use 'Final-cut' to cut some posters out of a shot i have. This shot is of the telephone box on it own, and to the left of the telephone box is scraps of ripped off posters which I'm not too sure this really fits the 1950s feel!
I played all of my clips and was quite glad that i had all of the right shots i needed, but concerned about continuity and have the angles i had planned to have in my finished OTS. So far, i have only edited up to the part where my male character in the telephone box and the mysterious lady walking past (excluding credits etc) but i did have a problem.

This problem is that i had a shot of the telephone box with lasted about 7 seconds with no male character walking into it. According to my storyboard there had to be a short while (around 7 seconds) of just a shot of the box and then my male character walking into the box, look around and then pick up the telephone.However, for some reason, i didn't film the male character walking into the telephone box after waiting for 7 seconds - i just stopped the clip. The next clip was of the telephone box again, but this time after around 2 seconds my male character actually did walk into the telephone box. I couldn't fit these clips exactly together because you would be able to tell that they were different clips. Also, i wasn't in the EXACT right place when filming both of these shots.

To fix this problem, i added in a transition effect between both of the shots - this transition faded out of the first shot, then faded into the next. Having this transition meant it didn't matter as much that i wasn't in the same position and also the fading in-out effect gave the effect of time passing by. Sorted.

I have been trying to stick EXACTLY to my storyboard, which i shouldn't be doing, as these ideas might not actually work with the footage. I'm never going to dramatic changes, but i might have to adds things in to make it flow a bit better, but the whole chronological order will be very similar to my storyboard. Any changes that i do make, i will identify and explain with posting.