The editing was done by me as my partner Marat and I agreed that he would be the main actor and I would be the editor. I decided to plan out my approach to the editing of the opening in a couple of steps. First, I would skim through all of the shots we took and select the ones that we would use. Second, I would upload the shots I selected to the computer and upload it into ClipChamp to see how long the unedited footage is. Sure enough when I input all of the unedited footage it far exceeded the time limit we were given. This lead to the third step which was to see which shots and clips could be shortened so that it fits the required limit. After completing the previous steps we reviewed what we had so far and consequently we realized two things. One, being that we were missing some of the shots necessary to transition in the opening and some of the dialogue which made it feel weird and wrong. To solve this we will have to retake some of the shots and record the ones that we had missed on Monday. The other thing being that the lighting for some of the shots weren’t how we wanted them to be. To fix this I had to tweak the settings for the brightness to make it either darker to make it more ominous or brighter to make it more clear. I also added in a special effect for one of the shots after deciding that it would be a nice addition to it.
Sound
After finishing up with the visual component of the opening I immediately went to search for the necessary sounds and sound effects for our opening with Marat. We searched for the sounds using resources that were provided by my teacher Mrs. Stoklosa which were BenSound and Pixabay. On BenSound we was able to find the background music for the antagonist’s scene which was called Vanishing Hope by Foepound. The music perfectly reflected the eerie and creepy vibe that we wanted to portray with Shade. On Pixabay we were able to find some of the necessary sound effects for the opening such as a door opening and closing. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find some of the sound effects necessary or the background music that would be used for the scene with the protagonists. As a result, we decided to make the sounds ourselves using Foley sounds during our second filming session on Monday.
Credits
After finishing up the audio component of the opening I got to work on the credits for our production. I looked for inspiration from previous projects about how they included it and what roles did they include in the actual credits. After I decided on the text and where the credits would appear I decided to ask for help from my mom as I didn’t really know anything about fonts. She said that the font that I was originally using (Comic Sans) was terrible and went on to recommend several other fonts that looked 10x better than what I was originally using such as Rakkas, Anton, Yeseva 1, and Krona 1. She also provided me with possible revisions such as changing the color of the title credits, moving some of the credits so they aren’t covering the opening, and shrinking/enlarging them to have more or less impact.
Conclusion
While it did take a while I am quite happy with how the opening is turning out and I cannot wait to see what the finished product looks like. Hopefully, we will be have all of the shots and sounds that we are missing and be finished by the end of next week.
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