Finishing Touches! Editing

Not much was done that day, but we did perfect the little things. We had all went and gathered a multitude of sound effects, which we all went over. The sound effects were for different things, like dog barking or a woman screaming. We went through almost 200 sounds to find things that we thought would work. Eventually, we placed them in our project and edited them accordingly. Some of them were almost out of place, so we edited the volume or we faded it in to be effective.

At the time, we weren’t satisfied with what we had, so we kept looking on lots of royalty-free sound effect websites. We timed some effects with the visuals and some with the song, to make it flow better. Other things we did was going to the cuts between each shot and editing it frame by frame. We did this so it looked like multiple angles were filmed at the same time. We did this by, for example: cutting one shot mid-step on my left leg, then starting the next shot - from another angle - mid-step on my left leg. This made everything flow way better over all. This also made our action match match better.

Some other things we did were do minor filters on our shots, to make them all look like they were shot with the same brightness and saturation. For the inside shots this helped a lot by brightening it up so it was easier to see. In the forest, we made everything more saturated to make it look more magical and different from the previous setting. This was a technique we got from Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. That was all we did that day, and the next step would be reshoots. We got a finished product to have for our peer review. Here is a picture of the screen with some edits, showing some sound effects we put in: