Editing Part 2

So, the editing journey continues and I'm sad to say that we haven't made much progress. I blame it on the life of a Junior! We took our SAT today, which required a lot of time and studying from all our parts, including our editor, Melanie. So, since our las blog post was only published a few days ago, we haven't done much. Still, we've made some progress and are on track to finish in the next week.

So far, we have basically combined all the footage into one long video. Pictured above is a shot of Betty (Tori) slamming the door shut after James came to visit. As you can see, it is followed by the car driving up. We are creating a sequence of events! 

We also put in the sound of the alarm clock, like I said we would. It was actually much harder then we thought it would be! Melanie told us how she has to scour the Internet to find one decent alarm clock. It turns out that not alarm clocks are made equal. We also played around with Betty's voiceover and the music during the scene and tried to find the perfect volume amount for each. This is because we wanted to make sure the music didn't overpower the voiceover, since Betty's monologue is important to the story. We still have to institute the sound of the other scenes, like August and James' scene.

 We've also tried to play around with the transitions more. This part hasn't been that complicated because most of our transitions are simple cuts. But we still have to work on a more smooth transition from the back to back dialogue between Betty and James. It is a little choppy right now. 

Melanie spent some time editing last night, but like I said we were very busy with the SAT the last few days. However, not that we have this very important test out of the way, we can dedicate a lot more time to our film opening. We haven't done any additional filming because I think we have our final takes already.