Finalizing editing for my Final Task


 Hey guys, so in this blog I'll address everything I've done with editing towards my final task. I will repeat somethings, but I'll make sure to be fast. So starting off with the small editing I mentioned in the previous blog. I began by placing all the scenes in chronological order and trimmed down the extra run time I had for each take. I realized that my one dialogue-heavy scene was much longer than I expected. This created the problem of time and making sure it wasn't too long. I ended up cutting many scenes from the final cut. Some including: the man walking into Dave's room, Leo preparing breakfast, and jogging scenes. The only reason these scenes were taken was to fill in time in case I didn't have enough. Luckily for me the dialogue scene did just that. Removing these scenes had no detrimental effect towards the story of the scenes so I'm not concerned. After cutting scenes and trimming time I had to get to work on the shot-reverse shot. I knew after seeing it on the time line this would be the most troublesome. Some information before I continue, I planned on editing during school where I knew I would be free from distractions in certain classes. During my fifth hour class I got through the shot reverse shot editing. I started by cutting the scenes where the dialogue started and ended. After that all that was left to do was match the scenes. It took me about 20-30 minutes with the minimal distractions in my class. The next step was to add the scene into the final cut. As I had planned it fit perfectly with little extra time. Once again I reviewed the scenes I could remove, but there weren't any. At this point I decided to change the feeling of the film but keep it in the thriller genre. My goal at first was to keep it slow paced in the beginning but for the time constraints I ended up doing a more fast paced editing on the video. It got the message through and worked fine. I was in time and now I had to add the titles and finally music. The titles were probably the easiest. At this point I was familiar with the software and breezed through it. I made them first and then placed them. I added a fade in and fade out effect, at the beginning and end, respectfully. Then was the music. The site my teachers had recommended was perfect. I got four songs and worked with only two. I seem to have written more than planned so I'll be writing the rest in following blog.

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