Hi! Today marked quite an eventful day, being the first day of editing as well as the first day of spring break! Regarding the latter circumstance, I apologize for being the bearer of bad news, but my blogging will be more infrequent over the course of the next week or so, as I will be traveling out of state to Nevada to visit my cousins for the break. If I do think of something I'd like to share, or if my groupmates and I contact each other virtually to further our production along, I will be sure to blog about it and let you know. Now being that spring break has just begun, it should come as no surprise that people, including some of my groupmates, have already left on their excursions. This has caused us to make significant alterations to our filming schedule, which, for the time being, will cause us to fall just a bit behind our plans. Due to the relatively last-minute development, we will now need to film next weekend as opposed to this one coming up since none of my group members will be available. That is not to say that I will be idle until then, being that I have quite a lot that I need to get done with regards to the editing I began today. Earlier on in the day, I began by compiling all of our potentially final shots into iMovie so that I could get a clearer picture of where our continuity issues lay. Upon doing so I noticed our biggest problem was when cutting between the long and medium close-up shots during our second scene with our shot-reverse-shot sequence. When watching back the video I found that this resulted primarily from the fact that our subject was either not facing in the correct direction, sitting in the same manner, or maintaining consistent facial expressions when cutting back and forth between shots. I resolved that editing would not suffice when it came to working out that issue. This, in turn, is why I decided to only conduct surface-level editing this time around. Once we film next weekend I will likely shift my focus to more extensive edits which include color and brightness correction, transitional refinement, the addition of titles, and the incorporation of non-diegetic audios. When it came to those edits, I essentially trimmed down the shots so that the scenes would flow better into one another. Moreover, for the cut between the point-of-view trashcan shot and the long shot in the hallway, I ensured that the screen darkened entirely to black to bridge the gap between the two and make for a cleaner transition.
I've included a screenshot of one of the scenes from our opening on iMovie to show you how I've ordered the clips.
Aside from the general editing that I conducted, I also watched online video tutorials on how to input text with the flickering effect we'd like to use for our titles. This way, I will be prepared for when that phase of the editing process rolls around. Additionally, I also took the time to make note of the definite changes we would need to make with regards to filming in our "new" location for our upcoming scenes. In doing so, I intended for my groupmates and me to refrain from wasting any more time, and instead, get straight into filming.
I've been listening to some of the immortalized and influential Sam Cooke's songs and "A Change Is Gonna Come" really stuck out to me, not only because of its profound and moving message of holding out hope for the best, something that I believe holds global relevance in today's society, but also because of one particular lyrics' relation to the fact that my group and I have made and will continue to make alterations to our project: "I know a change gonna come...Oh, yes it will" (1964).
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