Editing Blog: Choosing the Right Clips

 

Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog! After my group finished the filming, it was time to start editing. Since I recorded the scenes on my phone, I needed to look through each take before sending it to my other group member to edit. I took my time looking at each take until I found the one I liked the most. With each take that I liked, I saved it to a folder so it wouldn't get lost in the sea of other videos on my phone. Even though I had found the scene that would be used, a lot of them had beginnings that were too long, or we started talking in the background before I cut the camera. Due to this, I cut the videos to remove all the shots we didn't want in the final cut. After I did this, I sent them to my group member, Mya, who did the main editing. Using the app iMovie, she created a new project. All the clips I sent her were added to this new project. While I cut the clips beforehand, they were still a little choppy when they were put together. To fix this, Mya cut them down a bit more to smoothen the flow. After this, she went in and added transitions, like a fade-in and fade-out, to the video. Once she finished her editing she sent the video back to the group. The edits were really well-done, but some non-diegetic sound was still needed in the video. I suggested that we use some light music throughout the background of the video. I also thought adding in a school bell sound effect would be cool too. When it came to what song to use, we had a small debate. While one group member wanted a simple copyright-free instrumental in the background, me and our other member wanted to use an instrumental of our competition victory song. We decided to keep two versions and make our decision later while we were reviewing. With that our editing process came to an end. This is Kyra signing off!