Editing Process Part 1

 

                       Welcome back to my blog reader! After I have concluded the filming process for my short film titled “Lucky,” I am now going to begin the editing process. First, I began to choose the best takes for each scene and placed them in order in the editing app CapCut which is the platform that I will choose to edit the film. Then, I began with the opening scene of the film which had two different takes as in one  the protagonist played by cousin Gaby opens the picture of the raffle ticket on her phone while the camera was focused on a close-up of the phone in order to show the messages from Nancy telling her about the raffle ticket which is a crucial part of the story. This take was going great until my cousin skipped the part where she sends the voice message to Nancy telling her she’ll go and instead got up. In contrast, the other take went in a smoothly manner, but she did not open the picture of the ticket. Now beginning the editing process of the short film, those little details have caused a huge issue as my cousin’s hand placement is different in both takes therefore making it obvious that they are two different takes when I tried to paste them together. I attempted to unite them with different transitions such as a glitch and black fade, but I ended up deciding on the overlay transition in which you can still tell the difference, but it is the one that does it in the most discrete way. Later, when I show the short film to others in order to gather their perspectives on it, I will see what opinions they have about it and what their suggestion is on how to resolve the issue. Moving forward, I when on to edit the next scene which was the closet scene. This was more simple to put together as I did not have to paste two different takes together and just added a black fade transition to paste the first scene with the closet scene in order to make them flow together. Then, followed the same process for the following scenes such as the bathroom scene, the shoes scene, and the hallway scene. Then I encountered another difficult task which was to edit the scene where the protagonist encounters the stranger. I filmed this scene in three different ways which were a two-shot of the two characters interacting, an over the shoulder shot as well as shot reverse shot. I edited each one separately and then I had to decide which one was the better fit for the short film. I concluded that the better option was the two-shot as it just gave a clear interaction between the characters therefore making the continuity of the film flow better than what the other two different ways provided thus explaining my decision. Well this is my cue to leave, until next time reader!