Starting the Editing Process!

I finally sat down to edit and I spent more time than I should have on the beginning of the film.

The opening was the first issue. I started with the driving scene since that’s technically where the story begins, but I didn't like it. The audience doesn’t know these characters yet, so thirty seconds of them arguing feels random. Althoug the original plan was to start with the TV News Report scene, I tried the car scene first anyway just to get a feel. Although in the end, I ended up putting the TV news report scene first

I then spent another 20 ish minutes aligning, cutting, and making sure the clips fit well together and weren't abrupt in between. It wasn't hard, but it was kind of a tedious task, although it came out well in the end.

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Sound ended up being the biggest challenge. I’d focused too much on the visuals that I didn’t realize how uneven the audio was until I started editing. Some lines were too quiet, and others had background noise I didn't notice while filming. Cleaning that up took more time than I expected, but it made a huge difference.

This was a pretty short blog, and the editing was brief because my group and I were mindful during recording how the clips would come out. This made the editing load much easier. Although, I still have to figure out the music/audio tracks, and thats proving to be a real big problem.