We finished editing today. Editing late was something that we wanted to avoid, however life works in mysterious ways and sometimes does not go in your favor. We started editing on Monday, and it is Thursday now. It took about 4 days to finalize the project.
On Monday, Perla and I asked Nikaliyah to send the clips into a google drive folder. Perla used After Effects to edit our project. Nikaliyah was absent in most of the editing process, and it was okay because she did most of the work during filming. We had Perla edit the project because she was not present in filming. All I did was supervise, and tell her where to put the clips and what to do. On Monday, we arranged all the plausible clips. The process of rearranging all the clips together took about 2 hours. The film then was around 3:30, and we decided to call it a day there due to us having other work to do.
On Tuesday, we picked up from where we left off. I had Perla speed up many clips that thought could be sped up for time reduction. We realized after speeding up many clips, that most of the audio did not line up. So Perla had to undo everything she previously had done, and we had to pick which clips could be sped up without the audio messing up or being late. After having all the clips that were good sped up, the project was around 2 minutes long. Our project could only be two minutes. We decided to cut some scenes from the project. We watched the entire project through and cut off a bunch of extras. We had to cut off most of the panning in the clips because it took up too much time in our project.
On Wednesday, we continued with the cutting. Even though we cut off almost all of the panning and sped up a bunch of clips, it was still over 2 minutes. We had to cut off actual scenes that we filmed now. We cut off most of the beginning. We had originally planned for a flashback scene and a scene where the son asks his older brother to play, but the brother declines. We had to cut that off and started where the boy puts the unicorn toy on the bed. From memory, I also remember cutting off where the boy was walking over to the kidnapper, the kidnapper running with the kid and putting him into the car, and the dialogue between the kid and the older brother in the car. I cannot remember if we had to cut off more, but those are the most prominent scenes to me.
On Thursday, we finalized the project by adding music and text.
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