Day 23-24

Hey!

Day 23-24: EDITING. (yes, it took me 2 days)

Editing is the part that I struggle the most with, even when I edit news videos for my TV class. There are just so many ways we can go and so many different looks we can give the video that it takes me a long time to get done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0MeDQlrfgQ (black and white silhouette) Okay, but I don't know if I should use it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYNaj-DPseQ&t=61s (black bars) Got it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvFCnVRcT3Q (color grading) This is where it all went wrong. 

I did this whole color grading thing, clip by clip. I experimented with blacks, whites, shadows, contrast. I finished, they looked great. I render the sequence, I watch the video: the quality of every clip lowered!!! 
I undid the whole color grading thing and found another way to fix some of the clips that really needed help. 

Here are some photos of my editing progress: 

 

Organized footage. These are all the clips after my first "throw away the ones that I won't use." After this, I reshot some footage but those videos are in another folder.

Editing some audio things that I don't know if I'm gonna keep. 

Color grading fiasco^

* Font: I wanted to go for an elegant look, cause I'm planning for this film to be serious, that's why I chose a simple, formal font, and put it in white- a very simple, formal and serious color. 

*I figured the opening shot is really important so I thought about it and I decided to open the sequence with a shot of Aaron painting a heart. It's telling the audience that this film, above all, is a film about love, love for a cause, love for justice. I wanted my film to start that way!