Editing Post #2

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     For the second day of editing, we decided that it would be easiest if we focused on the audio portion of our film, because narration is going to play a HUGE part in our film. Like, seriously. For this portion of the editing, I did most of the work in terms of analyzing and fitting the non-diegetic audio of the narrator onto the current establishing shot that we have. Although Tyler did the majority of editing last time, and I did majority this time, the entire group did help with components of it, and in the end it was still a group effort to get the work done. We FaceTimed multiple times to make sure that we all were on the same page, and I ended up calling them more than a few times when I got stuck on things, lol. 

    Jacob was actually the narrator of the film, because his character, Jason Smith, takes on that roll. I thought it was super funny, mainly because I had to listen to Jacob's voice on CONSTANT repeat to make sure that everything was going smoothy. It was QUITE interesting. Jason Smith talks about the interrogation from his perspective, so it was important that I edited it an a way that was cohesive yet interesting for the audience.


Yours truly, doing some fantastic editing. :) 


    We actually used two different softwares for editing, one being iMovie and the other being DaVinci Resolve. The thing with iMovie is that (even though I kinda knew what I was doing on iMovie) DaVinci Resolve actually allowed us to have multiple people editing at once. This made me need to call them on FaceTime A LOT LESS, which was good for me. This way, we are now (and for the future as well) able to collaborate and edit together all at once. 

    But back to the actual editing talk. Editing the audio, at least for now, only took around two hours, which considering the amount of issues I had with layering audio at first, that isn't too bad if I do say so myself. But, we are definitely going to have to work more on the editing, because I'm no master editor (sadly). 


An example of one of the voice recordings for our narration.


    I used multiple clips that we had recorded previously, some of which I had to crop, others I had to increase/decrease audio... the list goes on. I also added some dissolve transitions at the beginning, because it is the very start of our film opening. 

   Overall though, I don't think it was too bad! We are going to have to reshoot the establishing shot because it was a bit shaky, along with other components that I mentioned in the "First Day of Shooting" blogpost. But, altogether, I think we are doing pretty good as of now. 

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