9/26 - First Short Film (editing) / Final

   This week, 9/22 - 9/26, was spent editing. Now that we had all of our scenes filmed, we had to use Adobe Premiere Pro to edit our film and turn in the final product. 

    The first day we started editing, it was me and one of the other members, Samantha. We tried to edit the first four scenes. This was a bit challenging because we’ve never used Adobe Premiere Pro before. Despite watching the tutorials, we were still a little lost and confused. This is when we really had to put our computer knowledge in use. We figured out how to download videos from our phones to the computer, how to add the videos into Adobe, how to cut the clips, how to fit them into the frame, and how to make sure it saves. 

    The second day, we were pretty much able to finish our film. However, it accidentally got deleted. The whole thing. We felt panic and fear because that meant that we would have to repeat the whole process, again. We tried figuring out how to get our film back, but it was no use because when we found our film, all the scenes were jumbled up or missing. It was a mess. So, that meant we had to start from the bottom, and rebuild. I got to working and was able to re-edit the first few scenes. It actually didn’t take that long, but the class time ran out. So, we had to save the rest of the editing for next class. 

   When next class rolled around, we felt confident in finishing our film. We worked together to gather each scene, put them in order, edit them, and add effect. We were able to finish putting together our film, however, we forgot to pay attention to the audio!!! We had 20 minuted left of class, so we rushed to add scary audios and understand how to control the volume of the sound and figure out how to have it fade in and out. The audio from some of our videos wasn’t that great, so we resorted to muting them and putting sound over it. But, there were two or three clips that had good audios and significant lines, so they were used. Really, my partner Alana was the one that was able to quickly figure out how to edit the audio. She did such a great job in the little time that we had left. 

    Overall, the editing process was probably my favorite. Despite the challenges we faced, the rush and the creativity behind it made me really enjoy editing our film. I liked putting together the scenes and decided how they should go. Upon the end, watching the final product made me smile. Our hard work was worth it. Watching the finished film was so rewarding, especially knowing the difficulties we ran into and the little time we had left to fix them. I look forward to doing this again!

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