Thursday, February 27, 2020

Editing Few Filmed Scenes

From both of the days we filmed together, we only finished 7 pages of the storyboard. This means we are still missing the last 3 pages, which include more dialogue and exchanges between both of the characters. However, Mariapaula and I decided that it is best to use her computer's editing program to gather all the recorded clips and watch them in order. The editing program we used is different from the iMovie program we used before. I happened to find iMovie much better, but Mariapaula found this editing program much easier. We simply just wanted to order the scenes chronologically, so it did not really matter that the program was worse, in my opinion, than iMovie. We took out the SD card and put all the footage into a folder. Where we then sorted all the clips that we thought were viable for the opening sequence and deleting the bad ones. Once we chose all the good videos we added them into the raw footage area of the editing studios. We dragged all the videos from the section to the track, and without any editing, the whole video was about 5 minutes without all the scenes being there.

Obviously, we had to trim most of the footage to decide with ones were too long and to see if we had to reshoot it. In the beginning this was very frustrating to do because I had to keep rewatching them. We were tired of it and did not want to keep going, but we continued. After all this, we managed to shorten to time to a minute and 45 seconds. We did this by speeding up some clips that were too long and cutting out the short ones entirely. We also did this with the approval of the rest of our group members. We plan on reshooting a scene with me because it came out way too long. There are still 18 boxes/scenes left to finished filming, especially Mariapaula's dialogue on the phone and the shot of the car going off in the street.