Diary of Editing 25th February

When editing this time I payed more attention to the music. When the music fades out to the black I wanted to create an echo sound that gets louder at the end. I could make the sound haver re-verb as one of the effects on premier elements, but couldn't fade out the music whilst making it louder at the end because it would sound jumpy and choppy which is not the effect I wanted to achieve. I slowed down the same music after the blackout to show a difference in the girl and what her ambitions are. The music has a dreary tone to it and it emphasises the bass notes. The slow music seems like it should have been used at some points before the blackout. However I'm not sure if I like the music that I've chosen for my film, therefore I have experimented with different music tracks. I have chosen to see what the other  soundtracks sounded like by using the ones from my previous sound research and planning task. The second sound track matched the film a lot better, however it goes against my idea of having contrasting non diegetic music to give the film a satire tone. I also used the time frame tool to speed up the bus part, I sped it up from 100% up to something like 600% to be able to

condense it down to eight seconds. I've also started to look at different transitions that I could use, however a lot of them are way too dramatic and give off the wrong effect on the opening sequence as a whole. The type of transition that would look best is one that slightly blurs between scenes to represent how the girls life is a blur and she doesn't really feel like everything is going well.

Diary of Editing-17th February

This time when I was editing I refined a few things so that the film plays smoother. I did this by cutting out parts of seconds that cut out where the camera jogs slightly. Some of the footage I have made longer than planned, however if it goes over the time that I had originally planned for the film to be, I can easily cut some unneeded parts out. Also I have started to experiment with filters,

however I can't find any that I like yet, I may have to just keep with very simple transitions or not use them at all. In my editing diary post before, I talked about saving filters as presets; I found out I can't do this, but I can save other things that are unneeded as presets which is frustrating. I will just have to work around this and make the filter match the shot. I am still unsatisfied with the filters that I have put on the footage so far, I want it to look brighter, but I want it to still look professional without the filters flickering, which I don't want on my film. I want the filters to create a sarcastic satire tone to
the film, so that the audience know that the girl is having a bad time. I have started to look at how I can edit the sound to match the film. Some of it I have slowed down for the second day when the girl wakes up and leaves home. I have discovered a new tool that helps me to edit the sound on my editor, therefore I will be experimenting with that, to get the best outcome of sound possible. I am going to try and make the sound have reverb so that it resembles how the girl is sad and is unsure what to do, whilst leaving everything behind.

Diary of Editing- 5th February

This is the second draft of my film edited. I have edited roughly edited half of it, I still need to cut some parts of it shorter where the camera jogs so I can get smooth pieces of film together. Also I have decided that when the girl wakes up I'm going to put darker filters on the part where she runs away. I made the music slower and decided not to maintain the audio pitch so that it represents how the girl's life is mundane and she hates the situation that she's in. I still need to continue to put filters on the film so that I can maintain the effect I want to show.  Also I need to add the working title sequence at the beginning of the film.

Diary of Editing- 1st February

I started to edit my film today. I had to make the timeline of the tracks really big, so that I could see everything by seconds, this allowed me to time things specifically and get the footage equally snappy.

I've tried out some pre-set filters on the film to make it look brighter and clearer, however there aren't any that I like, therefore I'm going to have to manually create a filter that I think works with the images to make them look brighter, I will have to find out a way of saving the filter I'm making, or I will have to manually create the filter each time.


Some of the shots weren't working as I planned, therefore I have cut the shots to show the girl walking up the bully, and then it cutting to the bullies. It then goes back and forth creating tension and a comical approach to it. This was more affective than showing the girl walk towards the bullies and then just cutting to the bullies, as it doesn't express the tension and hatred between the characters.

I plan to put a darker filter on the bullies to make them look more menacing, and to resemble their characters more.