Post Production: Editing

  This is my blog for Post-Production: Editing.

Everything here was done by Alex,

In the beginning the editing job was Arnolds duty where it took him a while until, our teacher got mad at us because we didn't show him anything for like 2+ months which was understandable but after that day Arnold sent the video which our teacher had some very strong words to describe our not so final work, such as "it doesn't make sense" and  some others.

Our teacher gave us a lot of INVALUABLE feedback on this first draft of our video to improve because in his eyes was very lack luster for how long Arnold took to make it. Such as

- remove the filter on the title screen

- fix some of the audio

- make it make sense

- some scenes were awkwardly cut

- change the name of the movie

- quote in the beginning needs to change

- Remove the LIONSGATE part

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The first fix is I removed the LIONSGATE Title to save on time

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The second fix I implemented was to remove the filter Arnold put in the title sequence. Sagara also changed the quote to make it fit better to the film

Previous quote

New Improved quote so summaries the messaging of our movie 

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The third fix is that I changed the title of the movie to make it sound better and fit the meaning of the movie better

Previous title didn't fit because quote "it is a reference to a song that didn't align with the meaning of our movie"

This title fits the movie better since Panji (our main protagonist) has a list of people who wronged him and him crossing them out after he beat them up

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The next fix was to remove the flashing paint filter on the clip that Arnold did for the Regents media productions I did this by asking him for the original clip he recorded

I removed it because the teacher said it made the title way to noisy and frankly it was unnecessary 

An improved version with way less noise I added the strobe effect to the typeface to add more          "eye candy" and to keep the viewers engaged 

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After all of that I finally got the fixes implemented and added some edits for some more intrigue

I personally was very surprised that we managed to finish this in the time that we did which wasn't a lot. Our teacher said it was a great improvement from the first draft that Arnold did. 

some more feedback that was given

- Remove the strobe effect from the texts

- change the regents media productions to appear at the same time

- add more dialogue during the parking lot scene because it didn't have enough meat on its bones

- color grading needs more consistency

- louder voiceover

- make the movie title last longer at the end 

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The first fix I did with the new feedback is to remove all the strobe effects from the titles, personally I thought they were a cool touch but the teacher said it looks "unprofessional and childish"

with the strobe

without

another example

without the strobe

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Another fix is that I needed to make the color grading consistent with the scenes where we are getting beaten up one by one, this fix was courtesy of panji one of our group members. I couldn't make it all normal without all the effects and stuff because Arnold our camera guy recorded the first beating up scene in the bathroom with the filter on so it's baked in the footage, so I can't get it to look normal

bathroom scene with baked in color grading

previous stairs scene, as you can see it's not similar as it's not blue

garage scene where I got beaten up. I tried to make it similar but since we recorded it during the APEX of day it's impossible to make it similar to the bathroom scene since it's way to bright with the sun. I tired to make it similar through the color grading but it became too blue quote "It's sour patch kids blue" -Sagara (one of our team member)

Improved version by Panji, it's more consistent with the color grading

It's less bright to more align with the bathroom scene, and it's a better blue

The final iteration of the video is within the FINAL VIDEO blogpost  

Self Reflection:
I did the rough editing which did not go very well, after finally showing the teacher our result, the teacher gave us some criticism such as "it does not make any sense" so we had to reshoot a few more scenes and Alex put it all together which turns out to be somewhat decent.