week 14

This week Devin and I did a lot of editing. We thought a lot about what our graphics should like for the panel and thought that having them have little speech bubbles that imitated the chat rooms was a really cool idea. We also met with Michelle who helped us out with color correction and Anthony Guevara who did the sound. We added a lot of music, and really thought about what the audience was seeing, and how we could make it make more sense to them.

I think trying to watch it as if you haven't seen it 40 times is the hardest part about editing. It's hard to know what people are going to get and not going to get, because you get it all since you've been involved with it for so long. I also think it's hard to cut, because some of the shots you get so attached too, but you have to cut them for the sake of the film's clarity and brevity.

I also learned from editing that you are going to struggle with some sort of technical problem that you may not know how to solve. It's just going to happen and you are going to have to go and find research that tells you how to solve it, ask someone, or mess around with it until it works.

The title cards we put in the film didn't work because the lines were so small so we looked it up. Apparently you need to put an edge blur effect on them in order for them to appear.