Last time Editing (Video, Fx, Color)

Now that I finished with the fixing up of certain aspects of the movie, I have to edit the video it self. That means putting the clips in the correct order and in the correct way. That was kind of difficult because the video was way over the time. Now with this in mind I had to cut some clips shorts and change the whole movie it self. There were complete plot points that I took out because it was just too long. This was unfortunate but I did what I had to do to make this a good movie. There was no difficult edits I had to do for the videos itself, I just had to cut it short. When it came to the visual effects of the movie that was tasking. Of course this would be hard and time consuming but I did my best. The first VFX that I had to do was the eyes and face of the catcher. I had to use the tracking tool to do so. After I pulled up the tracking tool, I made sure I tracked the yes and the mouth of the catcher. Once I did that and got the tracking information I saved it. I did some drawing on the catchers face and applied the tracking data to it so it would follow him if he made any movements. After that there was many different edits I did with the transitions and cuts. That was relatively easy and didn’t take me that long. When it came to the color of the movie I kept it relatively the same throughout. But I had to make it kind of stylistic in a way. The stylistic choice was to make it that anytime the catcher was in frame and had malice intent the color would invert. That’s what I chose and I think it worked out well as the inverted color made it seem spooky. The way I did that was I cut the clips into different sections. I did this so I could apply the inverted color to only a section of it. If I did t do this basically the whole clip would of been inverted. Once that was done and the inverted color was applied to everything I felt happy with the results and didn’t bother to change it. This is a picture of the catcher who has the tracked face drawings and the inverted color.

Re-Editing Blog (Fixing titles)

When doing the video I didn’t realize a crucial point when it came to the titles. I went and edited everything thoroughly. I made all the titles necessary for the project. I even put the titles in the correct order. But when making it I tried to make the titles as streamline as possible. I combined certain titles and tried to make it as streamline as possible. But that was a mistake. I don’t think I should of done that. Now I have to go back and try to fix my mistake. Which is unfortunate because I will have to go on the computer and do it on the editing software. What I figured out from the peer review is what caused it. During the day of the peer review I came in and finished the peer review. After the group that was reviewing our film was done, they came up to us. When they came up they informed me of a mistake that I made. I didn’t let the titles run through the whole film. I didn’t know I had to do this, I even squeezed titles together because I assumed that’s what was necessary. That was a huge mistake and could have cost me some points. Luckily we have the peer review which allowed me to go back and fix this. I will fix this by going  back and moving the title section around to allow it to go through the whole movie. Once I do this my editing will be completed and I won’t have to worry about losing points.

Re-shooting Blog

The movie that we created was able to get peer edited. We had the ability to get feedback from other team members when we did this. They gave us feedback that we could use to conduct a reshoot. That was the plan but unfortunately that didn’t occur. The news has been informing us about the unfortunate events that have been taking place. There was no way I could go back to my teammates house and conduct a re shoot. There was issue with our film that we could of fixed but it was already too late to do so. I wished there was a way that we could of re shot some scenes but I had to work on what I had. This made me focus more on the re editing aspect of the film. I was able to re edit some scenes that could of easily been fixed through re shooting. Re shooting the film would of made it a lot easier but unfortunately that didn’t occur. If I were to have the ability to re-film some scenes I would of took the liberty to fix the lighting and acting. The acting in the films was honestly not that great and the story was hard to grasp due to that. I would of directed the actors to be more animated in their actions in order to sell the story. The lighting would of been fixed as well. The sun seems to be an unreliable light source and was inconsistent throughout the film. It seems that I made it make sense with the editing but at the same time, time seemed to fly by extremely quick and I would want to fix that. I also found that some clips had been cut together but had different lighting which was extremely unfortunate, that is something I would want to fix.

Editing (Volume, SFX & dialogue) blog

The editing was hard and took a while to do. I had to go and think about all the things I might have missed in my first edits. There was the fact that the music and the audio was not correctly tuned. To tune it and level it out was difficult. I had to figure out which one I would want louder. The voices of the song and this fluctuated based on the scene that we were doing. On the first scene with the music I made the voice louder than the music. I could of just turned down the volume of the music. That wouldn’t work because I feel like the music was an important part of the scene and I just had to do it right. So instead I made the sound of the voices louder. This was beneficial as now the scenes wouldn’t be overrun by the loud music. The second scene I did I had to make the music louder than the voices and the audio from the video. The audio straight from the video didn’t add anything to the scene. It was just irritating background noise that I had to remove so that’s exactly what I did. The music that I previously found was used to fill in the dead silence. The music also acted as bring suspense to the scene. The way I found that song was to look through a plethora of websites. I had to find royalty free music that fit my scene. It had to be suspenseful and with a little bit of digging I finally got it and used it in the scene. Also during some scenes I added different sound effects to really emphasize what might be going on in the movie. It was hard editing the sound but I figured it out. 

Peer Review

The peer review was very hectic at first. I didn’t really know anyone’s name but I soon figured that out I got to peer reviewing. I handed my video to the group that was peer reviewing us and I got the video from the other group. Now that I had their video I really wanted to give them constructive criticism and help them with their video. While watching the video with my teammates we were able to have a lot of eyes on the video and could make proper criticism. The first questions were talking about the semantics of the video. It needed to reach a certain time and have certain titles in specific order. From what we watched, it seemed decent and even though they didn't have everything perfect they still did a good job. Luckily we were able to give them the criticism they needed to fix those issues. Moving on to the lighting. There lighting was decent but some parts were a little bit dark. I told them how to fix that issue and I hope they listened to that.  Their sound quality was also decent but some parts weren't that good and were inaudible at some parts. It was hard to focus on the audio with all the background noise. They did avoid any clips of them laughing and or any indication of someone holding the camera. When it came to the different shots they had about 8/14 of what they needed to have. I really liked he plot of the movie. I twas easy to understand and seemed familiar but had a different take. I would suggest they try out different shots. It would make the film more engaging and creative-looking.

First Editing Blog

This is the first editing blog that we had to do. It took a long time to do. We had to finish filming late and start editing really quickly. It took me a long time to finish editing because I had to trim it down to  2 minutes.  I found that especially hard because the film would of made no sense. But I tried my hardest to do it in order to finish this blog. When first doing editing, I had to put all the clips in the editing software. To do so I had to look through 107 clips and distinguish the real clips from the bloopers. It was hard and it took a long time to figure this out. Once I did, I had to import all the clips into the editing software. Now some of the takes were good but there was this period in the clips where I was telling them to “go.” Also there was a period after the clips where I kept recording. I had to edit 47 different videos individually. After that I had to put it in the timeline and beginning the editing process which took a long time.  After I put all the clips in and made it It in chronological order it was about 4 minutes long. This was 4 minutes long without the title sequence which sucked. So now I had to think about what I could cut out in order to keep the story and allow it to still make sense. That was a hard process. Once I did that, it was time to add the effects and music which was probably the easiest and most fun thing to do. Lastly, the title sequence was excruciating. The titles weren’t really working but I figured it out.