MONDAY+TUESDAY

So it begins, it’s time to start editing. At this point, I still need to film more of the main video so I thought I’d get started on editing the opening dialogue. I started by scanning through all my videos to find the ones that were worth using. It was quite difficult to find good clips because my actors spent half the time messing around. I had to figure out which order to put my clips into, and once I had done that it was simply a matter on adjusting the position of the clips to accommodate the cinematic crop, colour grading the whole thing and adding the backing music over the top.

I spent the majority of my time placing the clips and colour grading them, hence why this took me all day to complete. I was really happy with the colours I managed to achieve for my opening dialogue. I chose quite dreamlike purples and pinks. It sets the time of day (evening glow) whilst also contrasting to the main video, which is to be coloured in reds and blacks.

WEDNESDAY

With the scene all colour graded and edited, I could get started on gather sounds effects for my foley track. I used “freesound.org” to gather my sounds; I started with a basic ambient sound of birds and wildlife and started top build up the sound effects as I see fit. Having used Adobe Audition before, I opted to using this as it would be easier to add reverb to my sound effects that way.