Editing: Music & Sound

We needed music for our film. It took us a while to find some royalty-free music for our opening scene. We had multiple choices before we all collectively chose a nice mellow song called Summertime. When we planned this video, we wanted the sound to be somewhat quiet. For example, we diegetic sound of the engine starting and the car keys were meant to not be too loud or quiet. When we were filming the scenes, we also recorded the sounds and audios themselves to make sure that they wouldn't be too quiet. Now we would be sure that the audio would be heard in the final product. Then, we finally began to edit the scenes together. We clipped some of the sound audios and added them to the track. We also separated the audio from their original videos, and added them under the correct scene. This meaning where the audio was meant to match with the video. We watched as Rafi separated all of the sound while we placed them under the scenes. While this was happening, we were also looking for music choices and options. The music needed to be royalty-free in order to use it with no trouble. So we searched through many different websites for music, which we invisioned being chill and relaxing. We played it out loud for all of us to listen and see if we liked it. We went through about 7 songs. After a while we found a song that seemed to fit best for our film. The song was by the artist Egozi. None of us have ever heard of this artist before. We downloaded the song from the website we found it on, and then applied it to the editing software. We then noticed that the sound effects sounds off with the music together, so we had to get rid of it.

Editing: Putting the Scenes Together

I have already blogged about editing the scenes together and what we have filmed so far. Our group, like many others, filmed our scenes in multiple days. We had already known from the start that we would have to re-edit, as we filmed more scenes. These filming/editing days were throughout 2 months. We had aso switched to use a different editing software than the first time we edited. This was mostly because we were unhappy with the original editing software. Whenever we get more footage, we always sort it out first before editing. By sorting, I mean that we usually sort out the good footage into a seperate folder, to be used later. On the night we were done filming, my partner Mariapaula, accidentally deleted the footage. This is because instead of moving the good footage into a seperate folder, she just deletes the bad footage. So by mistake she deleted one of the good scenes of me getting into the car and driving away. She knew she had made the mistake and asked the rest of the group on what we should do about it. We initially looked up YouTube videos, which then all seemed to direct us to different websites that were supposed to help. So instead we just looked up websites on our own. These claimed to help restore deleted files from SD cards, but then tried to charge us for year-long membership fees. We as a group decided collectively that this was not worth the price. So in the end, we all decided that we should just might as well not reshoot or try to recover the scene, as the scene was not that important to the film anyways. So to prevent any further mistakes, we then handed the editing job to Rafi to do on his own. He then used a software app on his phone for the editing. Which is what we finally ended us using to produce our film.