Blog Post #53: Editing Day 1

 For editing, I had some trouble. First came importing every clip into my editing software, CapCut. After importing all of my film into CapCut, I had to rearrange the clips and correctly link them up with the scenes in my storyboard. The reason why I had to rearrange the clips was because of my separate filming days. My film goes from filming day 1 to filming day 2 multiple times, so I did have to manipulate some of the clips and even slow most of the clips down. 

Slowing my clips down makes my film illustrate more emotion. This is because the slower the clip, the more time an audience member has to take in the information. 

Here is what my editing software looks like. You can see where the two clips connect, which accurately shows two separate shots in my film.

Overall, this part of editing came off as easy to me. However, when it came to inputting the music and sound effects, I struggled a little. The reason why I struggled was because I had to extract some audios from the original clips, record sound effects, record the song I chose to use in an earlier blog post, and I had to mash up some of the sounds together.

I would say using sounds is one of the harder parts of editing, especially because there are so many elements that go into making them- aka foley sounds.

This is what the audio looks like on CapCut. It looks strange sometimes, especially with the blue squiggles. However, mashing up sounds can be easy when it comes to a short period of time like this in the film. I chose to fade in the audio as well as fade out on some sounds, which added meaning to my film. Music is the main factor in my film, especially since it creates so much emotion in audience members.