Final Edits

Editing is tough. I would say the first minute and a half of our opening has been fairly easy to edit, but the last scene has turned out more difficult than I thought. As this last portion involves diegetic sounds and dialogue, making cuts while trying to keep a smooth sound progression has been hard. Though we may be saying the same things and acting the same way in the many takes we have in our footage, each take has a different tonality in its sound. Also, we were not able to kill it with a single take, so editing is necessary. As none of us are actual actors, getting the scene right in one take was nearly impossible. After a few hours of moving parts around, the visual content of the last scene seems to make sense, but the sound still needs more work. Another issue we are having with the editing is our shaky footage. iMovie has an option to stabilize video, but this only works when the video is slightly shaky. We got lots of amazing footage that we won't be able to include due to this problem. We filmed everything with our hands, while driving, running, walking, etc. However, this was something we knew would happen, so we made sure to get a lot of footage. Half is shaky and half is not, but our halves are pretty big halves.