Editing Blog: Summary of Delays and Final Editing

Today is March 19th, 2020 and as of currently I am almost finished with the first draft of my Final Product. This month has become a crazy one, with the spread of the coronavirus along the mainland United States. As such, there has been some delays in the production of Final Product. For instance, I planned on  reshooting certain scenes on the dock but this has been postponed until things have settled down. We have been advised by the federal and local government to stay inside and maintain social distancing. Another setback that I have encountered is how busy my actors are. As of currently, my mom, Kelly, is busy making sure we have the necessary items we need in a prolonged quarantine. Additionally, my dad, John, is sustaining his business and is currently out of the house. Until then, I will likely be unable to reshoot. Despite this reality, I am still on track to finish my Final Task on the set due date.

Now back on track, the focus of today's blog is the editing process. In the precious blogs I discussed how I had done some basic editing: color grading, music additions, and transitions. In the past few days I have been working on adding titles and animations. Final Cut Pro, the software I am using to edit, has various options that I can add for the titles. For example, in terms of the text I can change the tracking, line spacing, kerning, and the horizontal/vertical alignment. Additionally, I can add animations to these titles. For instance, I can make the text separate, fade in/out, wipe in/out, burn in/out etc. For my Final Product, I choose to do simple fade ins/outs in order to follow the conventions of the thriller genre. Finally, I also exported my first draft of my Final Product. I saved the files as a Master File in order for it to be compatible on both Windows and Apple devices. Lastly, I saved the files to both Google Drives and a portable hardrive. This was incase the files became corrupted or I did not have access to my laptop.