Right on Track - Portfolio Project Blog Post #15

 Right on Track

So far, our project has been a major success. Our ideas have been aligning just as we wanted them to, our storyboard was realistic for us, and filming day went great. However, as TV kids we know one thing for sure: the way we go about editing may change the game entirely. 

And, so far, everything is going smoothly. Logan and I line-edited the project, and at the moment, we are waiting on Isabella to finish the volumetric lighting effect and Kimberly to find the font for our credits. But, you can go ahead and read that on their blogs. I'm just the line-editing chick.

Line Editing

Logan and I were ridiculously excited to begin line-editing everything together. We had a clear vision of what we wanted, and we were ready to get the ball rolling. Our biggest fear at first was that warp stabilization was not going to work for our security camera shots, but it seems that the Adobe Premiere gods were on our sides. Other than that, everything went according to plan. 

Just a little something to mention, because I just have to brag about how awesome this was- we added a really cool transition using a flashlight that wasn't in the script. When my flashlight passes the screen, it cuts to the flashlight passing the screen in the next shot. A toast to Logan for thinking up this one.

When we got most of our editing done, our worst fear came to life:

2:05.

Five seconds over time. At first, we totally freaked out- we had already cut everything we could, how are we supposed to trim an entire five seconds? But, we watched it over and realized that we had spent WAY too long on the security camera sequence, so we cut a large portion out from there and trimmed some other clips ever so slightly. At the end, we cut an entire 10 seconds, giving us some wiggle room in case we need to add anything later.

As for audio, we added some nice music and looked through our folley for some nice sounds to include. We all agree that we need some more sounds, so Kimberly and Logan will be making some extra for us to use.

All we need now is our credits, which I will be doing, and our visual effects from Kimberly and Isabella. We're right on track!