Editing!

           We have chosen the best clips to use for our short film and are now ready to move on. This means that we are now going into the editing process! I also enjoy editing because I get to see the film come together. I started off by gathering all the clips that I was going to use. For some scenes I had favorited two clips to see which one would look better in the film. The software that I used to edit was iMovie. My group and I have used this in the past and it has always been a very easy process. First I uploaded all the clips into iMovie. Once all the clips were there, I realized that it was a little over 6 and a half minutes. I knew that I would have to do a lot of cutting to get it to the 5 minutes it needed to be. 

            I then began putting the clips in the right order. Then, I added smooth transitions between each clip to make it flow together. I had originally used a fade transition for most of them, but then realized that the dissolve transition took away a few seconds from each clip. I decided to switch them to the dissolve transition since it was important to cut as much as possible. Once I had this done, I went through each clip and cut as much as I could. This was a very long process because I had to split a lot of the clips and cut out parts from the middle. After a lot of time and cutting, I was able to cut almost 2 whole minutes out, getting our film down to 5 minutes and a few seconds. Due to lots of background noise from outside, I muted all the scenes with no dialogue. I will soon go and add music during these parts, and then titles. I did as much as I could for now and will find time soon to finish up since I work all weekend.