Editing Blog
I worked on editing scenes 1-7 today. This is the first day, I've gotten a chance to edit our film. I skipped to merging the conversation shot/reverse shot scene which goes back and forth between Jenna and Mom. I had to go through all the footage and pick out what was usable. Then I trimmed the videos so I wouldn't lose the section. The clipped the videos together and trimmed them so they'd flow as smooth as possible. For the most part I followed the storyboard but some angles were replaced. For the record, I recorded an extra angle which was a close-up on Mom's left side. I replaced our normal close-up with that extra shot, not a huge difference but an example of replacing certain angles.
Listening to the clips, I noticed the major difference in sound quality. This was expected considering one is outside and the other is surrounded by home appliances. As quiet as we tried to get the set, you could still here a little background sounds. You could also hear the difference in sound volume. This is due to the actors distinctive tone of voice and particular acting. To fix this, I first tried to match the volume of the separate scenes.
I tampered with the audio's volume and decided what sounded good. This took a lot of tries and configuration. Even after I thought I was done with editing, I went back to tamper with the audio. In addition to tampering with audio, I did a couple audio overlays. Never thought I would've needed to do this but it made sense in the end. Overlaying audios helped make the scene and audio flow. Majority of this portion of our film acquires the dialogue to overlay certain scenes. Well, now that I think about it, overlapping the dialogue for action matches makes all the sense in the world. To do this I had to unlink the audio from video and place it on top of the videos clipped together. This is what that process looked like in the end:
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