Editing Part 1

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Now that we are largely done with filming, aside from only a couple of scenes we're looking to re-shoot on Sunday, it's time to put all of our individual clips together as part of the first step in editing. This is a very important part in editing because, not only am I making one singular, long video, I am ensuring continuity within the film. It connects each small video in one fluid story line, connecting every idea and finally starting to see our vision coming to life. 

It's been a pretty slow process to put all of our clips together because they have to be trimmed in such a meticulous and precise way that ensures a stray 'action' cannot be heard and that there is no hesitation from the actors waiting for a cue before they start acting. Sometimes they are trimmed too much and an action or a line is cut, and sometimes they weren't trimmed enough and the dialogue does not flow as seamlessly as possibly. Besides, the entire opening has to be around 2 minutes long so we also have to ensure that all these small little videos add up to that time frame and that we aren't ridiculously over or under that time. Regardless, though, it has been very fun to begin to see what the final product could be like. We are still some ways from being done, but, after weeks of planning and preparing, seeing the story in its entirety at last is quite satisfying for me and Sofia, and it only excites us even more to finish it all.

So far this week, aside from putting the individual videos together, we also began to play around with the way our music would play throughout the opening. Like I said in an earlier post, we are using StudioHeta's "This Is A Restart" to play through the beginning montage of the opening, so we had to see the volume at which it would play, as well as if it would fade in or out in certain moments or when it would end altogether. We are still unsure on how exactly we want it, but we will keep playing around with it as we continue to add other sounds and finish other edits. 

Editing this week has been very fun to do, and it only continues to excite me as we draw closer and closer to the end of this project in only a couple of weeks. We still have quite a bit of work left to do, but I think that it should all flow easier from here on out.

Here is a quick time lapse of the beginning process of editing this film opening.