Editing Blog

We started off by sending the footage to the laptop we were gonna use to edit. After receiving the footage we reviewed the footage, which took a while since we had many retakes of the same scene. We then chose out our favorite clips to later import. Once we chose the clips it was time to cut it down to then make a new project in iMovie. We imported all the media into the project to then align them in order to fit the story line. We then figured that we had to add some sort of background music to add suspense. We spent at least half an hour browsing through YouTube until then we found three songs that were non-copyright and fitted our film. We then voted to use the one we like the most. After aligning the clips and adding the background music we realized that there was too much background noise that ruined the film. We had to enhance the audio and after playing around with the setting we decided to add sound effects since it was too quiet. We then kept replaying the movie but it didn't feel complete so we had an idea of using some of the footage that we didn't initially use. We detached the audio from the video and then added a voice effect to make it fit the idea of a flashback. After watching it a couple times we still thought it wasn't done, so we played around choosing the right filters and adding effects to the video. In order to make the titles we had to review the titles that iMovie already offered us. It took us a couple minutes to choose the correct title. We then went back to add the dates and try to fit in more footage into the film. After a two hours we figured the music we had chosen had more of a childish tune to it. So back to YouTube we went, we tried many videos but yet again none of them fit the murder and thriller category of our film. Once we thought we found the right one it turns out it was copyright. So we just stuck to the one we originally had in our short film. We just started browsing sound effects and then we had another idea of adding a heartbeat sound to enhance the creepy aspect of the film. That was just the final touch that brought our film together and we loved the way the result came out as.