Editing

Editing

Heyy! Today I will be discussing our editing process.

    Directly after filming our film opener, we decided to knock out two birds with one stone! Let's get straight to editing this film since we were all already together. My group decided to use Adobe Premiere Pro since everyone already knew how to use it. By everyone I mean Tatyana and Zadie since they both had certifications (impressive!). It took a while, but after the software finished downloading we were ready to start editing! It was difficult to navigate at times, but my team was right beside me--ready to help.

    Now, lets discuss the video effects we used. We wanted to include the blinking effect for one of our point-of-view shots. Specifically, it is the shot where Tatyana falls to the ground after being POISONED. To put the viewers into Tatyana's mind, the blinking is added to show that she is slowly losing consciousness. This essentially added a sense of urgency! The second effect used was the 'blur effect' which was essentially added to the blinking effect as well. This layering of effects created a professional looking scene that we're all quite happy with! Furthermore, the transitions we used were mostly jump cuts in order to convey the passing of time. We also used jump cuts since it ultimately looked nicer by cutting from angle to angle. This was used when my character was shown opening the door for each person coming in. Before this scene, we had also used a match-cut (picture shown below)! We were actually very proud of how this turned out since it was almost perfectly aligned. The scene is first shown with my hand opening the oven door, then it cuts to the door opening! 

    Furthermore, after my groupmates had left, I continued editing. My teammates had left me to be the primary editor since all the files were on my computer. If I am going to be honest, it became quite frustrating to edit since I was so inexperienced. But with a call of a phone, my teammates were there to help--which I was really grateful for! For instance, I had constant problems with the sound--whenever I extracted the music to gather alongside the clips, there would be no audio. Although, my groupmates were also confused, they decided to just edit the music clips in CapCut! This made it way easier. Another problem we ran into were the clips that refused to show up. There would be instances where the clips would show up, but then disappear. Ultimately, we found out it was because my computer was exhausted from holding that much storage. All I did was simply delete some unnecessary files, that's it!

    Well, that wraps up our first editing day...some rough patches...but stay tuned because we'll improve!