Editing!

 Whats up everyone! This post was going to be a combination of what we did editing wise on Friday as well as finishing up today, but we had some scheduling issues, so I am just going to cover what we edited so far. I will inform yall on the finishing touches either tomorrow or sometime during the week!

To start off, we actually got a lot of editing done, in fact the film opening itself is essentially finished and we just need to add the opening credits and title graphic and we should be all set to finish. So far I already discussed in my blog yesterday one of the effects we created for the security camera shots, but other than that we also gathered all our sounds, music, tested some luts, and basically line edited the whole piece together. While editing we tried to follow the story board as best as possible, however, it obviously was not going to be a one to one match and so we used our decision making skills to decide whether rearranging some shots or placing a cut away would be better than what we originally planned. For example one shot shows our protagonist entering the building from a medium shot and following her as she looks from room to room for supplies, as she enters the building she drags her hand along a desk, while shooting we noticed this and got a cut away shot. The reason for this is because during pre-production, we placed fake blood on the hands and nails of our actor to give them character. The cut away close up shot allowed us to better showcase the make up on the actor and show the audience they are toughened.

Here are some of examples of the before and after of some of the different Luts we are using!

 

This shot is the cutaway I mentioned earlier that showcases the blood on the nails!

 Lastly for the music and sound effects in our film we made sure to use all completely copyright free sounds and music. We accomplished this by using YouTube audio library, a free resource for anyone with a YouTube account that allows you to download copyright free sounds and music. We also used Epidemicsound which is a website that provides royalty free sounds and music, however this one requires a subscription, but it had a 15 day free trial that we used to get the sounds we wanted! Throughout the majority of the opening there is a bed of ambient and dramatic music titled Murmur that we found on Epidemicsound. We found the sound of the train, noises for the cameras, noise for the flashlight, and an ambient sound effect that we used for a transition, all on Epidemicsound. For some of the outside shots at the end of the opening, we found a track titled "Spring Day Forest" on YouTube audio library.