Production - Editing Scene

 Introduction 

Hello and Welcome back to my blog, today we will start editing the film opening using the clips gathered from our production day. Me and my partner are both a bit caught up in our schedules so we will call more often to edit together that way instead of just together in person but when time allows we will also do it together in person. These upcoming blogs will also be more brief.

Editing Scene 1

We of course want to edit most of our film in order so we’re starting with scene one. Neither me or my partner had adobe installed on our laptops so we had to download Adobe Premiere Pro to in order to begin but we have had a bit of practice with the app from our media studies class and some work we did in the beginning of the school year that’s also on my blog. But even though our practice was a while back, I’m sure we will pick it up quick and even if we don’t we have the available resources like tutorial videos to navigate the app.

With that said we started by creating a new project to label film opening and then we added all the audio files and clips gathered from filming into Adobe Premiere on Noemy’s laptop since we decided it was best to edit on Noemy’s device because she has a Mac book and I use an iPad with a glitchy keyboard and no mouse so it would be much easier to use her device. Below is a picture of us putting the clips in the bin for use by pressing the import button and below that picture is another picture that shows all our shots in the bin.

After we had everything in the bin we were able to start putting it together/on the timeline since we could now select a clip, that would then show up in the upper left corner where we could edit before adding it to the timeline. A great feature from this editing software is that we can drag in only audio, only video, or both. 

Hence we started our timeline with a clip that has a short pan of the room before showing Gaby playing with a ball, this is our first scene and therefore the opening. We did edit this clip though/ adjust timeline because the clip was quite long since we recorded a bit extra to ensure we had what we needed. Then we continued this process with different clips of Gaby happily doing child like things like playing with a hula hoop. This continued up until the jump cut where scene 2 starts.

This took us a while to do since we were feeling out the software while editing our first scene. We made sure to follow our story board and script for the scene to remain organized and we created this scene without audio since we plan on putting our nostalgic music over this.

Conclusion 

This concluded the editing of scene ones clips together, our editing will likely amount to four post including this one since we will probably do one per scene like this one and then our fourth post on editing will be adding the words and music to all of the scenes since some words like the director credits will start in the first scene but continue into the second scene. Thank you for reading and see you next blog to edit scene two.