Hi again! Today we worked on our final edits for our project. I am proud to say that I finished adding in all of our titles. It was a tedious task that I'm glad is finally done. I don’t believe that I’ve said it before, but on our last day of filming when I was working alone, I had my parent's bedroom set up to film the shots in which the subject’s room would need to be arranged in a different way. With that being the case, I needed to both add and remove various props from the set to make a noticeable difference between the two sets of shots when I eventually compiled them together. In the haste of filming said shots, since I was already behind on time, I seem to have overlooked one of the props appearing in a shot earlier than it was supposed to. The prop I’m currently referring to is the bicycle in the subject’s room. Given that the programs I currently use are a mixture of iMovie, ClipChamp, and DaVinci Resolve 17 (the free version though; as I’ve said before, my teammates and I are all just broke high schoolers) their ability to help me edit is limited to the paywall that stands between me and some of their more "exclusive" features. Therefore, my group and I needed to turn to the only place we had left to look, the internet. After spending the better part of our class period scouring the internet for one such program, we stumbled upon an application that could successfully remove the unnecessary object, for free at that. That program being was "Simplified," a fitting title for the navigatable and beginner-friendly app.
I've provided a screenshot of the website's homepage layout below:
Now, granted, it did take a bit for me to become acquainted with the new program since it was an unfamiliar platform; however, it was definitely not the hardest thing I’ve had to do after having experimented on so many different applications. By using a masking tool, I was able to cover up the bicycle and blend it into the wall in the background, which wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be since it was a static, stationary shot. Those edits in particular took up the majority of my time today, with the rest of it being split on making some minor tweaks that I thought would better our project on the whole.
As I’ve said before, my group and I decided that we should darken the filter and coloration of our clips at the end of our opening, as to ensure that we created a captivating and nail-biting ending that leaves our audience in suspense, wondering “What’s next?” After a bit of internal debating, I determined that I should take things a step further, using the more abstract concept of a color change and pairing it with the more noticeable zoom-ins at the end of our video. I felt that, in doing so, I could mimic the iconic “Dun-dun-dun(!)” effect that is often used in thrillers, whilst also putting my own fresh spin on things. I was able to accomplish this feat through the use of an inaudible, but just as effective alternative. Aside from that, today was not an overly strenuous day when it came to editing because I feel that we were able to mediate the amount of work that needed to be done by gradually editing our video throughout our production process.
All things considered, I feel as though everything I did today was just as important as the rest of the editing sessions I’ve done during this project, even if it was mainly focused on cleaning up and making small improvements to our already complete project. In light of the fact that today was comprised of last-minute editing, I think that MC Hammer's 1990, "U Can't Touch This," hit is the best way to capture how I felt when I understood that it was time to "Stop..." messing around because it was I needed to busy and down to work since it was "Hammer time!"
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