Postproduction- Editing

 Finally, we made it to the last stage-Editing. Me and my group knew that we would encounter some challenges and difficulties, but we didn't encounter as much as we thought.

Postproduction

Technology

Initially, we were suppose to use a software named Premier Pro that was installed into our school's computer. But, when it time to begin editing the software was not working and he had to pick another software to use for our editing. Luckily, we did research on other editing software. We began using WeVideo. WeVideo was very user friendly. Me and my group members didn't have to watch YouTube tutorials because we used the software because we used the software before for a music video in December. We didn't run into much problems with WeVideo. I learned that technology is easy to work with once you figure it out.

Conventions

In my genre, the titling looks pretty much the same. The titling consists of 3 colors- Red, Black, and White. If white is used then it is most likely the colors of the letters. We used red and black in our title. We didn't use much transitions and effects in our opening scene. We used a transition twice. We used a dip to black transition in between a couple shots to enhance the meaning and mood in the opening scene.

Sound

• We need to add a voiceover to one of our shots- We'll do this by recording a voice recording on a phone and then uploading it to the editing software and inputting it to the certain shot 
• Also, we need to add instrumental music to the beginning of our scene and the end of our scene to create a additional meaning and mood- The editing software WeVideo has a plethora of instrumental music that could be added easily.

Process

The editing process began at the end of March. The shots that we initially shot we put them together, it took us a week to add everything required and tey to make it perfect. When we thought that we were finished editing we were told that we made a mistake with our costuming and we had to re-film all our shots. This put us way behind in editing and we became nervous that we weren't going to make the deadline. We re-filmed all our shots on April 2. Soon after finishing our shots that's when we began editing. Once we returned to school from spring break we had to add a few things and tweak a few things. WeVideo is a very easy and self explanatory so in both times we had to edit it didn't us that long.

Production

Production

Usage of Technology

The technology that I used during this process is my phone. I used an iPhone 11 to record dialogue and shots. No other technology was needed to do what was needed. No other technology was used so I didn't learn how to use any other technology. I didn't use any YouTube tutorials or instructions, recording on my phone was self explanatory and didn't require much steps.

Filming

 Me and my group started filming on February 23,2022. Initially, we used the hallway and a green screen room in our school but no matter how much we tried to improvise with the green screen, it was not working out in our favor. There was many distractions and if I'm being honest we had a lot of bloopers. It took us a long time to get a decent shot made. We had all our shots and we did a rough draft edit and the background was not looking good. So, we had to come up with an idea to do all of our shots over again. A lightbulb went off in my head. My mom's office has a similar layout of a police station and their conference room can be used as an interrogation room. We were over the filming period we were given so we had to film the shots all in one day. On March 12,2022, me and my group met up at my mom's office and filmed all of our shots in under 2 hours. There was less distractions and we were dedicated due to the fact that we knew we were running out of time and didn't have much time left. During the filming, we decided to change up the lines in the dialogue and change the type of shots.

Learning Experiences

As the director, I made a huge mistake I'm glad that my teacher caught it. Initially, I was recording the video in portrait. When me and group thought we were done and went to our teacher for review she told us that our video had to be filmed in landscape. We had to re-film all our shots. I'm glad that this happened because we were initially filming in a green screen room but it did not go as well as we thought. We had to change filming locations. We changed to an office building and used their conference room as the interrogation room.

Changes and Revisions

We didn't make much changes and revisions but we changed some of the angles for our shots and during filming Destiny and Dana improvised so their dialogue is not exactly like the script.

Bloopers