Editing Part 1

Today was my first day editing. It took me a while to align the clips. But I was able to put them in the best order and feeling that I could.

First off in the beginning scenes took me most of my time because there were so many scenes that had bloopers or that I felt weren’t as good as another version of the same clip. A problem I ran into that I remember happening before was that I noticed my clips did not have the same coloring as the clips on my phone. This is due to the HDR on iPhone and I guess Premier Pro does not enable HDR and doesn’t allow the clips to look the same. Since this happened again. I will have to find a way to allow it to be on premier or I will have to try my best to color grade the shots. I have already tested it on Premier and I think that I will be able to make it look good. When it comes to audio, I have not tested if I can use Premiere Pro's essential sound on my clips, but it probably will be able to work. I’m not sure if I will use the essential sound though because the sound for the arguing clips sounds pretty good.

Later into the scenes after the arguments, I noticed that some clips were a bit too quick or did not look as good so I had to look through them and make sure to pick the best one. Another thing that I implemented into the alignment was spaces between certain clips. In the photos, you will see spaces between certain areas and the reason for that is because, in the beginning, the reason for the space accounts for the production titles. For the other spaces, it is for a cut between different times in the film and I will possibly put the title of the film in between one of these spaces.

For the last scenes which are of the next day, a lot of the scenes are very light. The exposure and saturation may have to be turned down so that it does not look so bright. But for the most part, every shot looks pretty good. There was a scene that I was using Where I shot two different angles for the same shot, and I thought that I would use either but I was able to use both to make it look better and natural. Since this is the ending scene, I also noticed that I did not reach two minutes. I honestly thought that I was going to reach two minutes that even in my storyboard I ended at two minutes. But I guess through editing and I guess from me trying to cut down clips all the time from TV production projects my film reaches around a minute 30. It’s still possible that it could be longer, but I will have to see.

For the rest of the editing, I will be focusing on making the film look better like color, grading, and implementing titles/production titles. I will tidy up the video in general.