Addiction- film diary of editing

Addiction - Film diary of editing. 

Day 1 - Uploading the Clips.

The editing process of our film was quite easy, mainly because we broke it down into several parts and edited each part separately, and then combined all of those parts at the end so that i could then apply the music and sound effects. However, in order to get the clips to work properly we had to find the right clips and separated them from the outtakes which took some time in its own right. Secondly, we had to upload the clips and place them in chronological order in order for it to be easy to find and edit, because if i was to upload the clips in a wrong order it would take a long time and would be a boring process which would be a waste of time. After doing this I eventually was able to cut down the clips and make sure that they fitted together perfectly, so that there was no weird or edgy cuts and to ensure that  some parts or sections of the clips aren't shown as it would ruin the opening two minutes of our film.

Day 2 - Editing the clips

in order for us to edit the clips, we had to put them on the timeline and then render them so that they would be smooth, and we watched the full clip to be able to view and understand what we needed to do, so this was really the starting point the the editing. After this, I cut down on as much waste shots as we had to to shorten the film as much as possible because we had quite a few clips which could have damaged the scene, also we had to delete some shots which we needed but didn't have space for, so we made up for this by using editing to cut from one character to another character, rather than having a prolonged time span for that character e.g. Lewis Hall walking towards the drug deal.

Day 3 - Adding music 

as the music was a big influence of the feeling in our film,  I decided that we should start editing the music as soon as the clips were sorted out, and cut out, the music was very difficult to find and I ended up changing the music several times because it didn't fit very well with the scene, for example i was originally going to just use one song throughout the whole clip, but ended up using at least 3 songs. I thought that the idea that three songs was good to use was because it could change the mood of the audience during the opening scene, rather than just having one boring song which doesn't fit perfectly. Another benefit to using more than one song was that it would adapt and fit into the mood of the scene, and which then would influence the audiences mood.

Day 4 - Sound effects

The sound effects were probably the trickiest part of the whole sound topic in the editing process, which was mainly due to the impact which it had to enhance, for example, trying to get the right timing for a punch sound effect when a punch was thrown into the clip, also, the sound effects were hard to find because there were many YouTube videos which talked about them, but did not include them, so I spent a good few hours trying to find the right sound effects. but luckily there was a video which had a link to some Non-Copyright sound effects which i then downloaded and used for the editing process, and although some sound effects did not fit (due to limitations), i was able to change the speed in which they are played so that they sound either heavier or lighter. 

Day 5 - Finish and Publish

After finishing editing the film, and making sure that everything was in place, i was able to finally save the video onto the computer and then was able to upload it and publish it on YouTube, however there were some errors which we came across and I had to edit the original video on Adobe Premier Elements 10 to add a Title, and deleted the video i uploaded before that and added the improved version a few weeks later. After that it was finished and available to view.