Editing

 

    The first process of editing has finally begun. After being occupied by posting to social media and creating the thumbnails, I put off editing for a while. I would like to be completely finished with the editing of both trailers by Saturday April 4. This would give me a full week of time to write the critical reflection, which is a major component that I feel would benefit from a week of time designated. In addition, my schedule that I made for myself at the beginning of this process allocated a week to the CR. 

    I am editing on Adobe as it has all of the features that allow me to color grade, add music, etc. All of the things that I need to complete the two trailers. The first process of editing entails an initial edit. This first phase of editing is just the initial process working with the visuals only. This is always tedious as I have to transfer all of the footage from my phone to the actual platform, but I have to rip the band aid off at some point. I started a folder in my Google Drive titled Porcelain- I had this previously, due to my social media postings, but I added all of the video clips from my phone to the drive so that it would be easier to import them into the editing platform which is on my computer. 

Here is a picture of what it is looking like after importing most of the clips. 

    After a long, and I mean seriously long process of importing all of the clips, I have begun to order them as I had just put the clips in by the order that they were filmed. This was an easy process. I just dragged and dropped in correspondence to my outline. Then, I begun to trim the clips, polishing the bits at the beginning/ end that were extra and the time finally went down to the two minute vicinity. The time was a bit under, but this works because I still intend to put title cards in between some of the clips. 

    After this, I moved onto designing the title cards. I designed them differently for each trailer as they have different tones. I stuck with the Pinyon Script typography to ensure continuity in the branding. I kept the white color as well to maintain that consistency. 

    The last step of editing was importing music. Since I decided on classical music as it can represent both a dark and light tone (also due to the fact that it is not copyrighted!), I used the website below to download the music.

https://www.classicals.de/solo-piano-selection

    

- Lauren ♡