Movie magic editing

  Hello! Now that my group, Avalon, Morgan, Jake, and I have completed all of our first round of filming it was time to begin editing. We decided to use the software IMovie. Before this process begun, we had a few things to keep in mind. I obviously didn’t want the finished product to end up looking choppy so I wanted to make sure it transitioned smoothly. We also needed it to be under the correct time limit which was 2 minutes max. When I originally put all of our clips together we were way over time, we had around 3 mins and 12 seconds. So one of the first things I did was go through and cut the more unnecessary parts and shorten some clips. Most of them now look smoothe but some ended a bit weird so we might just need to re-film those parts. Our movie also needed music somewhere within it. I found some copy free creepy music from YouTube and screen recorded it off of my phone and went back into the IMovie app and inserted the audio to put as a back drop. I put this music in a couple different scenes. In the one of Thomas, Bella, and Hannah walking towards Amelia’s murder scene towards the end. And where Bella is searching for Amelia in the hallways as it cuts to the watchers foot steps. I also added a suspense sound effect for when Hannah finds the sign in the kitchen. I’m not sure if we will be keeping that in yet. Then of course we needed to edit in our titles. When doing so I referenced my notes to make sure it was in the correct order. Also made sure that they were evenly spaced as much as possible. I ended the last clip of the black screen, from the lights being shut off, with the Directed By credit. This is what we’ve done so far for editing. And will probably go back and re-edit as we get more feedback and re-evaluate it. I’m looking forward to reaching the finished final product.