Calling Card: Editing Process

 Editing Thought Process

Before I get into the specifics, all of the editing is done my partner, Anders. This is because we made an agreement where I would be the main actor and he would take care of the editing process. Although he did all of the physical work, I helped him with a variety of smaller tasks such as browsing sounds, video and time managment, and also general advice on how to edit. I was also with him when he edited so that is also to be taken into account. 

As we gathered all of the shots we realised our undited footage exceeded the time limit by a mile. Andres then browsed over all of the shots and decided which ones were worth keeping and which ones were not. Andres then began the editing process. He started editing and that led to him cutting most of the clips by a bit so we fit into the time constraint. It then dawned on me that we forgot some of the shots. As we came to a realization, we decided to come to the filming location one last time to wrap up the filming process. Some of the shots were also just weird and felt wrong so that was another reason on why we wanted to re-film some stuff. An additional problem we ran into during filming was about lighting. During filming, our clips were a bit too dark or too bright. To solve this, we used the lighting option when editing to customize the effect of various lighting options and stuck to the ones that felt right.

Sound

With all of the visual additions out of the way, we decided to begin researching sound effects and soundtracks for our characters. The way we researched the sounds was through the websites my teahcer provided us, which are BenSound and Pixabay. On Bensound, we stumbled upon a perfect soundtrack for our antagonist. The soundtrack was called "Vanishing Hope" by Foepond. That piece really exemplified the vibe we wanted to portray with our antagonist which mainly revolves around eerie and creepy vibes. On Pixabay, we simply found some backround effects such as a door closing and opening. Unfortunately, we run out of luck and we could not find any protagonist music. To combat this problem, we will make our own musical soundtrack using foley sounds and whatnot in class.

Credits

After I and Andres finished working on the sound part, he took control once again. I would try to include myself here but to be honest, he did all of the work for the credits. According to him, he begun by looking at previous projects done by students a while ago for inspiration. After he decided on where the credits would appear and show, he started researching fonts. As he did not know anything about font choices, he decided to get some help from his mother. Also according to his blog post, his mom gave him some incredible advice which was that his font was too big and the font that he was using (Comic Sans), was really bad and gave him a top-teir font reccomendation and we really liked it. She also provided some advice on font color, credit placement, and the size of the credits. 

Conclusion

I'm not going to go around saying that I did half the project or anything like that because honestly, he put in all of the hard work, which is really commendable. After I reviewed the semi-finished product, I was really proud of what we created and I cannot wait for the finished product. I hope on Monday we get to complete the filming and also editing so that we can get started on our CCR productions.