In this blog it consists of a journey throughout our editing process in which Tisha did most of the
editing work but she asked the other group members opinion on what could be improved in the scene.
The Blog itself and pictures was done by Tisha
Editing
Throughout this editing process, there were many changes that were done which were changed based
on the overall look of how the video looked and some were changed based on audience feedback that
we got including our teachers suggestions.
https://youtu.be/O3vvr_vzE5U (First draft)
This is the first draft that we did before getting feedback from the audience and our teacher. After showing
this video to them, there was a lot of feedback that opened our eyes to new perspectives. The feedback that we got was:
Extend the introduction, to make it more interesting and doesn’t jump straight to the main event / problem
Add more music to create suspense; such as during the drug scene, fight scene with mom, and ending
Make some scene look more intense and to create a feeling that can increase the sense of personal to the audience
Adding music in the introduction in order to make create the scene as well before starting the scene
Add more scene in the party to make the movie more interesting and creates curiosity for the audience
After all of this feedback, I started to get on editing and see if I was able to reach audience expectations.
Problem 1: Drug Scene
In one of the scenes, we can see the drugging takes place. However, we noticed that the lighting of the
drugging shot is the same as the rest of the party. This might make the drugging shot too similar with the
rest, making it blend in.
With this new change it brings emphasis to this shot and shows its significance and danger. We made the
lighting more low-key by adjusting the color settings such as the exposure. The low-key lighting differs
this shot from the rest and adds some suspense.
Problem 2: Opening Scene
For the opening scene, I created two different example of scene. Where the difference is the timing when
the first opening credits should pop up.
https://youtu.be/y-KRmsXuG38
(Scene 1 example 1)
We can see in the first example, the opening credits of the character starring comes straight into the movie.
This may seem too fast and the duration was a bit too fast as well, which it hard for the audience to read the names.
(Scene 1 example 2)
In the 2nd example we can see that the opening credits come a bit after, which they have a much longer duration but
still was a bit too fast.
After all these examples and several feedbacks later, I change the opening credits scene to show the first character
name a scene later after the movie credits. This allows to create curiosity for the audience who will be appearing in
the movie from the opening credits scene.
Problem 3: Room to party
In this scene we can see that the main character comes out of the room then jumps straight to the party, overtime
this looks like the character’s house and the party are located at the same place. I did not want it to be like that, so
In between the scene where she rushes out of the room to the party. I added a car that was trying to park to indicate
to people that the main character left the house to actually go to the party as this was shot outside of the school.
Problem 4: Make up continuity
https://youtube.com/shorts/yoC4-yERInA
This is the make up continuity error, at first it was too long which is why I cut it to make it short and it feels the
scene became fast. With this fast paced it helps in leading to the climax and it builds suspense to the audience.
Opening Sound
From the first draft of the video, the opening of the movie had no sound which felt empty with the sudden jump
into the scene. Which is why I edited to add the song to be the intro, but with a twist of adding a distortion to the
music. This allows the audience to feel the feeling before going into the scene. As the music was party music, this
creates the atmosphere of the party.
Tension build up to fight scene
Before adding this tension music, when the music cuts off then the character turns around it wasn’t giving the
feeling of the jump that every thriller would have. I think that by having that tension music builds up and overlays
with the music being played it makes the scene feel more intense with the amount of sounds that can be heard all
at once.
Problem 5 drug scene
https://youtu.be/OIciUSQPrAg Drug Scene
The drug scene that can be seen here is that I added a tension sound in order to emphasize and make the audience
focus on the cup. With this tension itself, not just by emphasising but it can also make the audience start guessing
on what's gonna happen next. This becomes a hermeneutic code to make the story more interesting.
Final product test:
https://youtu.be/RjckTFb3BB8 (#1)
This was the final product test, where we showed it to our teacher in which there were several other things
needed to be added and changed in order to create a more appealing result.
https://youtu.be/fL6aE-N6g5w (#2)
After all of the changes that we did, this was the result of the changes that were given from the first final product
test. Even though the changes weren’t really noticeable, it helps in creating the scene to be more lively and the
audience can feel the feeling that we are trying to give to them.
This is the first draft of the audio for the opening, where the markers can be seen as blue represent when the beat
drops. This helps in cutting each part based on the beat drops in order to make it more lively and builds up tension
to every beat drop.
Problem 6
From the two images, we can see the different type of fonts that were use as the opening credits, as well as
the size of each font are different. At the end we decided to use the one on the left that uses the type writer
font. This font was much simpler and it wasn’t similar to the title that we had.
Overall from this whole editing process, there were many changes that were done and it creates this better
result from the very first result before feedback was given. From this, it is better to hear from other people's
opinions which could help in seeing things in a different way in order to create a better product.
Reflection: the editing process was mainly done by our group member Tisha. the other members and i helped
by giving our opinions and thoughts about combinations of different scenes together and different uses of sounds.
there were many times where the combination of clips looked off and it was difficult for us to find solutions to it.
we also had to ensure that the final video lasted less that 2 minutes, which led us to finding more solutions on
which clips to remove of shorten which then led us to spending more time.
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