Production Blog

    On March 18th, rather than film more scenes, I decided to start editing my final project just to see what I was working with. Although, I cant agree that it was my intentions to start editing so soon. In my previous blog, I stated that majority of filming was moved to spring break. This unfortunate decision was made since I had to move to Hollywood for a short while. Thus, meeting up with my cast members is no longer an option for the time being. While editing, I only took note of three main areas for my project. This included placement of shots, length of time, and slight cuts. Just to make things easier and a lot more organized, I set all my shots in chronological order already. It didn't take long for me to dump all the footage I had so far in to my preferred editing software, iMovie. Once that was out of the way, I proceeded to go through each slide and make any small cuts needed to make the film concise as possible. Any takes that I didn't like were taken out which meant those that were the best stayed. After my run through of all the scenes the only thing I need to do so far is re-record my close-up shot of the Main character's phone. I accidentally filmed it vertically rather than landscaped at the time. As I said before though, this will be fixed once filming starts back again later during spring break. With that being said, everything else went smoothly with my first session of editing. currently, my film is exactly 1 minute and 2 seconds long. Honestly I was quite surprised about the amount time I have left to meet the time limit. It seems that more shots may be removed in the near future. I expected the indoor scene to be at least 50-55 seconds. Not to mention the cuts I already made so that I can add more shots for the remaining scenes in the film.



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