Editing Blog: The beginning

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Hello Cambridge! Today we started our editing journey. First, we had to airdrop all of our files onto a computer. This took a very long time because the wi-fi was not working. I also had to send all of my videos to other people in the group, because my phone does not have the airdrop feature. Finally, the wi-fi turned back on and we were able to start the real editing process. Our first step was to put everything in order, unedited, into I-Movie. We had some debate over how to put things together to make them flow the best. One problem was that we needed a shot-reverse-shot, which we had technically recorded but we didn't particularly like it. We had videos of her looking down and then back up, but we weren't sure what to put in-between these shots. We finally decided to put one of the shots of paper there, which we felt flowed the best. This scene was made even better because the scene we decided to put next was of her ripping that paper off of the page, which helped make her actions seem erratic and crazy.

    We then decided to deal with the sound on the video. We knew we needed diegetic sound, but we were usually not quiet while recording, which caused the diegetic sounds in the videos to be weird. The only good scene we had as far as background noise was when Amelie throws the title of the movie down. For all of the other videos, we completely muted the sound. We also knew that we had the voices of me and Lilly to edit in for diegetic sound, but I am actually very happy with the sound that it made, and I feel that it adds to the atmosphere of the film. We then put the black screen at the beginning and black screen at the end and out in the fade in and fade out. We decided to start trimming down the clips. Many of them had some time at the beginning and end where we kept recording to make sure we had the shot, but they ruined the flow of the movie. Unfortunately, once we had finished with that, I had to leave, so hopefully we will be able to finish editing soon!

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