Blog Post #21- Editing 1

Our editing process was fairly simple, with a few problems that had to be overcome. For starters, a character in the film wore a mask and because of that, the lines they said were muffled and quiet. To counteract this we added captions to the entire film to make sure the audience could understand everything that was being said. The video effects we used for the film were simple. There were hard jump cuts, transitions and background music. Adding the background music was a challenge because we had to make sure it diidnt overpower the dialogue but also wasn’t too loud. The solution was to find a good medium so that it could be heard. Overall the editing process took about 2 hours to add in everything, music, text, and additional shots. Another problem we found was that our final product wasn’t long enough, so we needed to add exposition shots. At night, our editor went out and took various shots of his neighborhood do add to the beginning to give us that extra time. Adding the text like credits and captions wasn’t very difficult, it just took a bit of research to figure out how to make it look good.