Editing Journal - Main Task

In this blog, I will explain what went on during the Post Production.

 Main stages of the editing process:
1. Select footage
2. Trimmed it
3. Put on timeline
4. Transitions
FIRST CHECK IN
5. Add music
6. Add effects
7. Credits - fonts and titles
SECOND CHECK IN
8. Lengthed transitions
9. Rended in to out everytime new material was added.

Lesson 1 -
In our first lesson of editing, we imported all of our footage and ordered them in chronological order on the timeline. This meant that we had to watch over the footage as well so we knew what each shot consited of. By doing this we selected the file we needed and clicked import. Then we dragged each shot onto the timeline. We did this by holding down on the shot and moving it. This was an straightforward step that we were able to do with no problems. We watched over the footage to make sure we didnt miss anything out and that everything was in order. then we were bale to start trimming our shots.
Lesson 2- 
Once all of our footage was in the right place, we started to crop each shot to the right length of what we neeeded. By doing this we inserted video effects - transform - crop and dragged it over to the timleine. After doing this to all the shots, we watched over the footage to make sure it made flowed well even though there we no transitions but we were going to add this in later on. Then, we then began muting sound that we didnt need. The sounds we kept were the sound effects and dialogue that needed to be heard to make sense of the scene.
Lesson 3- 
Lesson 3 consisted of adding transitions in between the shots so there was a smooth flow. We managed to this well and used a straight forward transition. After, we began looking for sountrack to go over the muted scenes. we used youtube to research for music. 
Lesson 4- 
Then we began adding in our credits and titles. By adding a title we choose title and added a template. Then we gave the template a name and pressed ok. In this case the title of our production was 'Evangeline'. Then we added credits. we started off by adding text to the shot we wanted our credits in. Then in the title panel we clicked on the roll/crawl options below and apropriate direction and then clicked ok. We were unsure on how to add titles so we asked our teacher for some help and researched on ways to do it.
Lesson 5- 
This is where we had our first check in. The feedback we were given were that we needed a slower fade in of the credits and titles so it was easier to read and didnt look so rushed. We were also told to change the opening shots to black transitions. We were also told to consider putting our credits onto a black screen but we felt like this did not make the scene look good so we kept what we previosuly had. the positive feedback we were given was the sound track that we used as it went really well with the shots. 
Lesson 6- 
We started off by adding effects to our shots.  To add an effect, we slected the clipscomand-clicked on the desiered clips. Then we started to drag and effect. We selected the clip and double clicked for the effec to show. we then asked our focus group about what effects looked good and what could be added. We were given feedback and were told that making shots darker would look better and add an scarier effect which is what we were aiming to do. As we were unsure of how to make clips darker we used google to help us. We made our shots darker by going to the effects panel and opening video effects and then colour correlation. we dimmed the brightness and contrast which worked well. It didnt make our footage blurry which is what we didnt want it to do. This worked well and made our footage look better.
Lesson 7- 
We were given more teacher feedback about the speed of certain shots. we sped up and slowed down some shots. we used the speed/duration command to do this. we inserted the panel and choose a clip to speed up/slow down. then we used the speed to speed/slow it down and then clicked ok. we expermiemneted different speeds before we found the right one that looked good.
Lesson 8- 
Next, we had our second edit check in. We were given back feedback which was to change the fonts and make them all the same colour on the credits. This was because our title was not the same font as our credits. firslty, we change all of our fonts to the same as our title, but we did not like it so ended up chngingt he font of the title as well so it fit with the credits.  We were also told to make the length of our transitions longer. We also made our transitions longer from 1 second to 3 seconds. We did this by double cliking on the transition and in the effects panel choose the trim in icon and dragged in onto the timeline.
Lesson 9- 
The last thing that needed to be completed after finishing all the editing was the rendering from in to out and exporting the file. To render in to out we choose sequence - render in to out and then when all the bar at the top of the timeline changed green we were ready to save our project and export it.