Editing Pt.1

 Hey, blog! Filming is officially complete which means editing is up next! This post will focus on our editing process.

If I am being sincere, I do not enjoy editing. In previous projects, I have always struggled to handle the software and have a hard time finding the motivation to edit. But, we are splitting up the editing! Before we get started, let me tell you a little bit about editing. Editing is the organization of shots, and it is the process of putting raw footage together. Some editors work together, which is what we are doing in this case. This requires less direction from the professional world so it is common. Editing is the choice of specific organization techniques and it aids in storytelling while giving a sense of realism. Not only that but editing guides the emotional responses of the audience. 

Regarding my film opening, I am in the process of transporting the clips from the phone and camera to the computer. We mainly filmed on my phone, which is an iPhone 14 so the quality was pretty good. I shared the clips to my group but after further inspection, we realized the lack of quality the clips had afterward. To fix this, we simply shared them on Google Drive and I airdropped some of the other clips as well. This ended up fixing our problem with the quality when changing through different mediums. 

Afterwards, we began ordering the clips in the right order, but before we could do this we had to select the best shots. This process took SO long just look at all the clips we had.

Once this was complete we finally began organizing them into the different scene from the house, car, and gym. All of our shots combined were WAY more than the limited two minutes so we ended up not using some of the clips at all or just shortened them immensely. We definitely had most of the shots from the gym since we want the main focus to be on her injury while training, of course with some aspects of her going behind her coaches and mom's back. Now that the organization of the clips was complete, some shots were too short and abrupt so we tried to balance them with the rest of the film by adding in some longer takes. Of course, some shots were simply too long so we ended up trimming those to fit the balanced combination of clips. 

This concluded our first editing day! Everything is now organized and sorted out so techniques and sound can be applied next.