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Final Cut & Discussion on Edits

Final Cut of Dr. Tick Tock

In this final cut, Scott and I did not change much from the original video. We were quite content with the rough draft as it had much of what we desired. Similarly, in order to keep continuity between edits, we would have to only edit the scenes that were outside of the classroom. We were left with little options. Our major edit was the final scene. In the rough draft, one of the background characters was moving during the time freeze. This completely destroys the ambiance that is trying to be achieved. In order to fix this, we zoomed in on Scott a little more and shifted the frames to the right. Many of the criticisms that we had on the video involved this scene. Other criticisms were confused about the time freeze and even called it a slow down. Hopefully, this change can make it apparent that it is a freeze and not a slow down. Besides this change, we edited the beginning of the time freeze to last a little less as and made several of the cuts cleaner by adjusting the position. 

We received criticism and confusion on the direction of the story. Many people could not understand what genre was being portrayed. The video does not show the genre of superhero comedy explicitly, but there is the comedy aspect. There are also aspects to the superhero genre through the time freeze and Scott not being affected. The title of the film also alludes to this. Since the video is only two minutes long it is difficult to show everything we wanted to show, we had to cut a large portion of our filmed content. If the video were to be continued, the superhero aspect would be much more evident. 

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Editing Our Masterpiece: Week Two

This week we did some further editing on our video. We have still kept all of our titles the same, as what we worked on was not the beginning of the video. Likewise, all of the fonts are also the same. We changed one of the cut to a fade in order to have more continuity as one of the scenes have a rough transition without a fade. Video effects aside from a frame freeze is not used.

Audio effects are used in the final chunk of clock ticking. It begins really soft and rises to the climax point where the clock freezes.

Our major problem this week while editing was an oddity with the audio. Every two ticks, there would be a small gap without any sound at all. This really bothered me, so I could not let it go. The best solution is to have audio that will play a soft buzz so that it will not feel like there is emptiness in the sound. This week we didn't spend much time editing, maybe two class periods at least. Scott and I worked on the editing this week again. There isn't much more filming that we could do at this point, as continuity is an issue for the video.

Editing our Masterpiece: Week One

During this week, Scott and I worked to get most of our editing done. We chose one of the default fonts that are in Premiere Pro because we simply liked it. We used 3 titles for the intro "credits" scene. One for our production company, another for Scott and I, and one for the actual movie title. As of right now, no video effects have been used. We have yet to decide how much more we want to implement. Video transitions are cuts for right now as they are no significant time jumps. Everything is very straight forward chronologically. We plan on implementing audio effects in the coming week for the clock. We want to really emphasize the importance of time in the movie.

A major issue we found while editing was slicing up scenes properly to fit with the clock motif. For example, our last scene has the time freeze but we wanted the clock to stop in the middle of the scene. So we had to cut the scene and place a clock scene which was then stopped at a frame to show the time freeze. After which, we placed the other half of the scene back. Another issue was the videos being cut off or too far zoomed in. This was fixed by editing each individual video to not be as far zoomed in.

Scott and I spent about 2-3 class periods worth of editing. I have previous experience with editing videos and we had planned how we wanted the video, that is why it didn't take much time to finish for the week. Scott and I were the only ones involved in the editing with some assistance from our teacher. If we need additional filming, it would be of the clock. We actually had too much footage, this gives us legroom to work with the video if we wish to change it.

Filming the Video: Week Two

This week Scott and I did more overviews over our film as we had finished all the recording last week. We made sure the videos had loaded properly and had a good quality once uploaded onto the computers.

Scott and I mainly analyzed the quality of our videos this week. We also re-recorded the video of the clock as the first video was much too bright and we needed a room with a darker clock. Scott and I began considering whether or not we actually want to add a voice-over or if the silence of the film might be enough comedic effect.

Filming the Video: Week One

These first three pictures are us preparing for the filming. We had a time limit to get all the filming done in one day so we had to prepare beforehand in order to not waste any time.

These next two are post-filming. We were analyzing the videos we took in order to make sure they were taken correctly. During this time we also saved the videos to the student drive as a backup.

This was a very interesting week because we had to wait until Friday to film. During the waiting period, we prepared as much as we could. We filmed in a classroom with other students, as a result, we had to finish that Friday. Otherwise, the other students/actors would have different clothing which would ruin the continuity. With the time limit, we adapted as much as we could to make it work. Many of the cuts will now cut to the clock to emphasize both times and to allow for other scenes to be more cohesive rather than jumpy. Overall, it was a pretty good week and filming went absolutely wonderful with the participation we received.