Final Task production blog: Editing


    On Thursday, March 18, Harlow, Juanita and I got together over google meets to edit. We did run into a problem when it came the scheduling of the meeting. We were gonna meet right after school, which was when I was available, but since Harlow couldn't meet we had to postpone it to later in the day. However, I had plans later in the day so Harlow and Juanita had to start editing without me. Later on, when I finished and got back home, I joined and did some editing as well. When Harlow was editing, something that we had trouble with was exporting the videos. Harlow tried to email them to herself first but the files kept failing. Because of this she had to export them from her phone directly to her computer. This, however, took a rather long time and was the reason that Harlow couldn't attend the original timing of the google meets in the beginning. 

   Since I was unable to edit the beginning with Harlow and Juanita, I instead edited scene 5 on my own. In this scene the mother can be seen running to the stairs, turning around, and then screaming. This scene was particularly easy to edit since there weren't many shots in it. However, when inputting transitions, we were unsure of which transition to input. A lot of the transitions we tried looked choppy or made the scene look low-quality. We finally decided on just cutting it between shots, since this was what looked best out of all the transitions. When editing the scene, we were also unsure on if we wanted to keep the mother's original scream, or add a voiceover of another scream. This is because the scream from the shot is kind of low-pitched, which seems it seem superficial. We finally decided to preserve the original scream though, since we figured a voiceover would sound even worse and could possibly make the scene sound more "fake". We agreed to meet again tomorrow, March 19, since we have no school, and it is the start of spring break. We plan on using this time together to film and maybe even edit some more too depending on how much time filming takes up.

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