Editing Again

 Back to Square One...

Welcome back, everyone! With our most recent changes made to our film, we were now required to halt all previous editing and start putting together our new scenes. Edison continues to take the leading role in editing, dealing with every aspect from elapsed time, transitions, sound and visual effects, etc. He is using CapCut throughout this process as we all have the most experience using this editing software.

Time Spent

Editing has been the hardest part of the film so far, even when we had to record our film three different times already. This is because all the magic happens during editing, so we need to be spot on with every decision. Also, we did have to scrap two previous movies midway through editing, so that extended our editing time a lot longer than it should've. Days of work have been thrown out the window as we learn things the hard way. Nonetheless, we stay dedicated to polishing a perfect movie opener, and Edison is leading the way once again, already hours into this film's editing process.

Editing Roles

While Edison is assuming the majority of responsibilities in editing, that doesn't mean the rest of us aren't involved. All four of us are contributing in deciding which takes we want to use, what order to place clips, how to maximize the suspense, and overall composition of the film. More specifically, Eugene and Rayyan have been involved in the pacing of the movie, ensuring the clips (especially the montage) are ideal lengths, and that we get as close to 2 minutes as possible. As for me, I have been involved in sound, trying my best to overlap sound files to sync up with the video clips. Also, I've been exploring how we can use sound elements such as J-cuts and L-cuts to make our movie more immersive.

Additional Filming

We recorded just about all of our scenes. We just need to record some of the voiceovers due to lack of audio quality in the original clips, and because we plan to use actual voiceovers to narrate as well. Further, we need to finalize some concluding shots, and we may even decide to use a clip or two from our previous shooting sessions. I will go more in depth about our new movie idea soon, and hopefully publish a post just about our film set in the near future. Stay tuned!