Editing Blog: Setting Up

Now that my group is finished with filming I started to edit. My group decided on an editing software. This did not take long since each group member has a little bit of experience with editing software due to previous projects. I shortly visited the idea of some free services that would allow me to mainly use my laptop. However, after entertaining the idea in a group discussion, I then decided against it because it would limit the overall ability of my group to move clips and sounds across platforms. Instead I decided it would be the best choice to use iMovie as my groups editing software for this film. This is because all group members are able to use it and I have a little bit of past experience using the software. Before I started to edit, my group members and I gathered all of the scenes filmed into one folder. I was able to do this pretty easily because my group members sent the already filmed scenes into a group chat I made through iMessage. To make moving the clips into iMovie easier, I put all of the clips in scene based order. This basically means I arranged the clips based off where they belong on the storyboard. With the scenes being orderly, I was able to simply move the clips into iMovie. Though this process was easy it was somewhat time consuming because I had to move each individual clip in the software one by one. My group was mainly focused on getting the clips in order and completing the first voiceover in scenes one to three. Due to this my group only worked on editing scenes one to twelve this time. To get the voiceover set up correctly my group had to keep editing the the first three clips so the times would align. There are separate times since the voice over was not an original part of the scenes. This part of the first phase took the longest. In the end I had to keep adjusting and loading the clips so they could properly align. This was tedious because loading the clips and sounds all together on iMovie took a long time and I had to keep moving back in forth to know if I was going in the right direction when align them. Since my group was able to get what was originally set out to complete done, my group decided to finish the rest on a different date. This includes deciding on a sound or music and editing the rest of the clips. However, my group already has a good idea about how it will be done. Moreover, my group plans on finding some sort of suspenseful or spacey soundtrack to use.




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