Editing: Finishing Up the Project

 Finally, the project is finished.  Last blog, I talked about the filming process.  Now that we have all the content we need, we were finally able to put it together.  The editing process was harder and longer than anticipated.  We had to be very thorough to make it the way we wanted.  First, we started off by putting all the clips and scenes we had filmed together in a google drive folder.  The folder ended up with about 50 clips!  We didn't include all of these clips in the final project, but we thought it would be a good idea to shoot extra takes incase some of them did not come out as good as we hoped.  Giving us more to work with proved beneficial.  The one who did the actual editing was my partner, Nicholas.  I watched him do it and helped give him ideas for it.  The initial draft came out to much more than two minutes.  But, with enough work, we were able to compress it to 2 minutes in a way that made sense.  It was hard for Nicholas to make some scenes.  Namely, the phone call scene and the first conversation scene at the campsite.  It was hard for Nicholas to get the audio and video to match up for all the videos.  But, after a few attempts, we were able to get it to work.  After putting all the clips together, we added music.  We went on a royalty free music website and sampled music that was said to be creepy, scary, and ambient.  These are the moods we were hoping to create with our project.  After adding music, we went back and watched it through.  We fixed up any problems there were and now we are proud of our project.



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