Extraneous editing

We have now completed the film. I’m glad we were able to do it efficiently. We now move onto the editing process. As I have stated on previous blogs there a few points of interest in our video. These would all be different memories. There is a jump cut from when our main character grabs the book and the opening of the book. This will then play into the oversight of the memories. We will have him skim through the pictures, which is a POV shot. Then he finds one and zooms into it. This moves into the vital transition.

This is the zoom-fade. This is where the camera and the editing software with have to work in perfect unison. We will have the camera zoom into one of the pictures, this will be a picture at the beach. Then along with the zoom we will have sort of a minor light-out so that it appears that a picture is being taken. This is probably the hardest part of our entire video. As if this is messed up, then it will kill the flow of the video. Flow is one of our main objectives of all of our entire video. We are attempting to make this a professional as possible. This can be seen in our commercial, the result looked very professional. There are also a few other transitions that will need to be  perfect. 

Most of these transition will be ditto to the first. They will contain a zoom in and a minor light-out. There are also; however, some similar yet different edits. This will be the zoom outs of these picture. This will be important as one picture will have to transition to another in the video. After the storyline is complete then the transition will come in. We will have the zoom out, but the picture will start off with the minor light out. Next, we will slowly reduce the light out as the camera zooms out. The final edit with have a jump cut to a wide angle of the husband sitting next to his now wife. Then finishing our editing for the video.

Filming: The Final Strech

On Sunday, December 1st, our group decided to try to finish as much as we could. This has played a large role in the filming of our video. This is because we have extracurricular activities, which got into the way of some possible filming opportunities. We also felt that elder didn’t want to wait until the last day to film and edit the video, this would pose quite the challenge. On Sunday we were able to add more key components to our video. This is the memory book. This book will be featured many times in our film and it is imperative that we finish this as soon as possible. The book plays a large role because it contains many of the tough transitions we will need in our editing phase. We took photos of memories though out town. This included the park, the beach, and in a car. Then would come the hardest part of the editing process, the reminiscence phase. This is where we would have my group mates dad look through this memory book. This would include pictures of him and his friends. We will have an especially tough time creating a smooth flow from the picture to the actual scene. But with the right timing and effort I believe that we can accomplish any editing obstacle thrown at us.

The very next step we should have as a group is going to film the genuine video. We will do this very soon as it is the final steps to this video. We used to have a set mindset that we should go to the beach and play around. Now; however, it is Christmas season, which means that there is the Las Olas Christmas tree. This would work especially well as we could use it with the memories perfectly. We had a discussion between us that this location should be moved as there was a better opportunity. For some of these scenes we might use a drone for a birds-eye-view of the tree. We could also use a skateboard to help capture video of us in the car together. If there happens to be any problems or inconvenience we will be able to adapt to the situation. As we have a few back-up plans. One of these  plans is to go back to the original setting of the beach. Another is that we could go to the center of Fort Lauderdale by the sea. We have already taken some memories there of a small event they were hosting. I think that even if those many back up plans don’t succeed we will be able to find a new location. One of those could be at holiday park, they have many cool things to do there, so it could be a perfect fit.