Editing Blog: Editing With Stephanie

When I got home, I face timed Stephanie so we could discuss editing our opening through iMovie. Stephanie first informed me of the editing she did so far. She selected the tapes and put them in order. Next, she trimmed the clips. She also told me this process took around 45 minutes. We then moved onto discussing what new edits we would make. Initially, we planned on having a voice over in the beginning, but we didn't end up using it because we felt like it wasn't necessary. For the majority of our call, Stephanie was adding titles to the video. Before, we wanted to do a pattern of red and green for each of the words in the title. We were also going to put some parts of the titles in bold.

However, we didn't end up doing those things. Instead we had one title be green, then the next be red, then the one after be green, and so on. We also did not put any of the titles in bold. Next we talked about what music we wanted to added to the film. Since our opening has a lot of action in it, we decided to use fast tempo music. When we found music that we liked we had to ensure that it was uncopyrighted. Luckily, the creator said it was free for anyone to use. At that point, I had to leave the call but Stephanie continued editing in my absence. We wanted to add diegetic sounds like doors shutting, gun shots, etc. So, Stephanie had to record the sounds and add the audio into the video.