Editing Blog: Struggles

 Editing the film we made was a bit of a struggle since we all had different ideas on how it should be made. On top of that, we edited over FaceTime. This made it harder since we weren’t face to face with one another. First, we had to figure out what was going to be the title sequence and what would be the opening shot. We already decided what our font would be but, we had some last minute ideas. However, the last minutes ideas we could not change since we already put what it would be in our blogs. We decided that my house will be the video for part of the film that shows the title, actors, production company, etc. One thing we came across while editing is a realization. The instructions specified that we were to make an opening sequence a movie. This meaning the START of a film. This left all of us, especially me very frustrated because I’m the one who figured it out. One of our disadvantages is that we filmed sort of late of the month. In reality, there was absolutely no time to re-film. So I had to alter the clips and make it seem like it was the opening of a movie. I used and edited the same clips we recorded over those weekends, however in a way that wasn’t as if it was a short film. I was really upset that I did not realize this. This, made it harder to edit now. I had to shorten clips and also add a couple more clips we weren’t going to put in the opening sequence. To edit, i’ll silence some clips so the audience doesn’t know what’s the plot or what’s already happening. The point of an opening sequence is like a telling the audience what the movie is about without telling them.