Post-Production

 This week is the final week before spring break as well as the last week to wrap everything for our portfolio project. With this in mind, this week has been spent revising and editing our film to its final form.

How we used editing

We used editing in our film to create meaning and intensity by the use of fast cuts and transitions. By quickly cutting between scenes a feeling of rush and intensity is added. This complements the other meanings already established by the other elements of the film.

The process of editing originally started off rough. We were first instructed to use Adobe premiere pro, however, the computers were experiencing issues that did not allow the students onto the software (still unknown) which resulted in the class having to switch to WeVideo. Normally, Wevideo would be fine as it is very user-friendly, though it does not have all the tools Adobe has and even contains a watermark. Luckily for us, our wonderful teacher bought a subscription that thwarted all of this. Through this, I learned that WeVideo is actually a decently good editor when you have the paid version. I also learned that doing voice-overs is way harder than expected and takes many tries to perfect. Luckily for us, WeVideo was very user-friendly so we did not have to consult any type of youtube tutorials to achieve what we wanted.

Following convention

The mani convention we followed in our film was definitely the title. Conventionally in Sci-fi films, titles are short and or point to the main event in the movie.

As you can see here all these titles are short (1-3 words) and they all talk about what the film is dealing with. For us, we named our film "His Journal" because our film is centered around a journal.

What we added

Through editing, we added a plethora of transitions, effects, and credits in our film. Firstly we added the transitions (such as fade out and quick cuts) to give the film a feeling of intensity and we added the credits slowly using fade-ins at the start to slowly introduce all the people that worked hard on our film.

Sound has also been a rather long and interesting process as we had to add a voice-over to our film. The way we accomplished this was I recorded myself saying all the lines then we imported it into the editing software and made cuts to put the audio into the correct spots where the dialogue was needed.

Colors

The overall color of our film (in reference to filters) was simple. We never had to add any filters into our shots because all of our filming was done at the same time of the day resulting in the background staying consistent so no corrections had to be made. Also, we never had any flashbacks or such in our film so that is also another reason why we did not need any filters and kept the lighting consistent.

Revisions

One of the biggest changes we had to make was taking out some shots as our film originally exceeded the 2-minute mark. Luckily the short below was rather useless in comparison to the rest of the shots we had.

How I feel about the project personally

Overall, I feel the process of editing was fun, however, it had its setbacks. The first setback was definitely the first day of editing in class where I had to constantly change computers attempting to find a computer that worked with the software just for the teacher to say not to use the software at the end of class. This was only a temporary problem so I believe we should switch over to the more lighthearted moments.

In my opinion, the best moments of editing were going back and looking at the clips unedited and having to cut out the endings because almost all the endings our actor would make weird faces or laugh.

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