Finally, everything is almost finished! Today I finished the final little bit of editing that was left. We have linked all of our clips together and have picked a variety of different transitions that really complement the film while matching with the beat of the song that we picked. During this editing process, my partner and I faced a wide variety of challenges. At first, we did not know whether to put the title of our film opening at the beginning of our film or at the very end. We felt that it looked much better at the end, but after talking to a couple classmates and asking Mrs. Stoklosa we determined that it would be much better if it were to play at the beginning. Another tedious task that we had to work on, was deciding the order in which our shots should be placed. After the first few starting clips of me walking out of the car, walking into the gym, and putting on the headphones; my partner and I were unsure as to which order we should place our workout clips to best compliment our song and help our film appear smoothly.
For the entire editing process, we decided to use iMovie, as both of us found it much easier, and far more effective to use than Adobe. Moreover, I am much more familiar with iMovie and know how to use the editing and coloring system much better than on Adobe. To begin our opening, we started out slow placing all of our less intense workouts at the beginning, and progressing as our film opening moved on. Towards the middle, there were the more intense clips but not the very intense ones. The very intense clips were placed more at the end. We really wanted to show how our athlete progresses through his training, and how over time with hard work and dedication, he is able to improve himself physically, and mentally for his upcoming fight. Moreover, we placed a series of different shots of me running throughout the film opening. This was also another way in which we felt that we could show our athlete's progression, starting the running slow, and then increasing the speed as the film continues.
We also really played around with the lighting and included a few really cool lighting techniques. We adjusted the blinds in the gym so that just a little bit of light could crack through from between, giving it a bit of a heavinley look as I entered the gym. Moreover, we also added a lens flair in the establishing shot of the gym to give it a sense of newness and show how cool the gym looked. Additionally, we also used a focus pull editing technique at the start of the film as our car pulls in. By doing this we were hoping that not only would it look cool, but it would also shift the audience's attention as the car pulls in, while also not making them really focus on the car driving, and have them instead focus more on me as I step out.
We also, played around with the cropping and aligning of many of our shots, in some of them, there were clips where I was not exactly centered on the screen, and in one of the clips, there was part of a tree hanging in the top right corner. Instead of re-shooting these scenes, we deiced to crop the tree branch out and center the frame. By doing this not only did we eliminate a potential production error, but we also made our production look professional, while still giving it that hand-held shaky look which we so craved.
The last part of our editing consisted of messing around with the song. Our first issue, as you may have seen in some earlier blog posts, was dealing with finding a new song. Our old song was perfect, it matched our film amazingly and was also really cool, and really good. However, the official publisher of the song never responded to our request to use it, so we had to go out and search for a new one. After much consideration, numerous failed attempts, and a lot of reading, we finally found a non-copyrighted song that is not bad, and not repetitive. The song is called Bell signal, and we found it on a website called TuneTank. The site is commonly used by many content creators as it provides users with tons of copyright-free music. Just for reference I included some pictures of the cite as well as some pictures of their policies.
After the song was found the real hard work then started. In order to get the clips to align with the beat of the song we had to do a lot of cutting and editing. We had to merge the clips, and even fix the footage so that it is smooth and flows as does the music. During this time we also adjusted the speed of certain clips. In some boxing clips we sped up to make the punches look faster and more realistic, others we slowed down so the audience could see the full action as it happens, without feeling that the shot went by too quickly. Regarding credits, we gave our main actor a made up name (Jake Mcaffe) as we thought it would be cool. All of the other credits that have something to do with the creation of the film opening we used our own real names for.
Finally, the last thing that we did was add a few subtle sound effects to compliment our film opening. The first one we added was called shop doorbell by 775noise. We used this sound as I opened the door, and began to walk into the gym. The other sound effect that we added before that was one of me closing the car door, by devy32. Both of these sound effects were found on pixabay. We added these two sound effects, one to further create a sense of realism, and two so that we could create a little bit of sound diversity within our production. Moreover, we thought that by having these subtle effects we would be able to have a greater contrast of sound when the music starts playing.
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