I have started editing together my video, and this is the first stage. I will stagger my project by saving out different sequences at different parts. The first edit is very rough. Just editing each clip down to the part I am going to use, placed end to end on the timeline.
All together I have 20 seconds and 4 frames worth of video, and I need to lose 5 seconds and 4 frames to bring it down to 15 seconds to fit the requirement in the brief. Most of my edit points are 15 seconds long, but the frame rate is 25, so if I edit down each 15 frame clip to 12 or 13 seconds I will shave more time off the total and make it seem faster paced.
One thing I have noticed is that while the way I storyboarded the sequence had a nice varied pace, some of the pacing hasn't worked out quite right and some parts don't feel right so I will have to experiment further with speeding up clips and adjusting their length to get something that feels more complete.
The sound portion is completely absent. All the clips have sound but in most cases I have removed it because it is not good enough for the project. I will have to record the sounds for the scenes later in the week, and since I will be focusing on the sound alone I will get much better results than I did with the sound accompanying the video portion. I will also have to research good sound effects to use on top of the diagetic audio to enhance the mood.
After sound will start editing the look of each clip. A lot of them are much darker than I expected so I will be editing the brightness of the screens as well as colour correction and any other necessary effects.
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