Final Editing Touches

 Editing has to be one of my favorite production stages because just putting together the final product is the best feeling in the world. On that note, I have finished the line edit of my opening and am now working on color-grading my footage and going through my audio channels to ensure everything sounds right. Working with 6 different audio channels can be a hassle, but whoever made a naming feature for each audio track deserves a noble peace prize. 

Beautiful, right?

   So anyway, editing has gone smoothly so far and I've been breezing through post-production because of the fact that I estimated the length of my clips with black video. I needed more time to work on my CCR, so that technique saved me a bunch of time. I added the second half of my opening into my timeline and added in some new foley sounds, and completed all my graphics. A few weeks ago I was debating between the "against" and "Aubrey" font for my title graphic, but I actually used both. For my credits in the beginning I used "Aubrey" and for my title graphic, I used "against" since it gave more substance to the title.

"Aubrey" font

Now, I know we were advised against putting our opening's title at the end, but I think it fit my opening, so I went with it. Also... a change was made to the ending of my opening. In my storyboard, I was going to have Iris walk out of her room to get her mother's attention, but when I reflected on that, it didn't feel like an appropriate move for Iris. At this point in the film, their relationship is hanging on by a thread and we don't see the complete ambition to save it yet from Iris and I want that to come out later in the film. I really liked the obstructed shot I came up with and felt as though that would be a more appropriate ending to this opening. Iris honestly feels defeated because it takes a lot of courage for her to confront her mother, so that's the vibe I wanted to go for in the ending instead. We see her defeated posture and she lies back down in bed after her mother completely ignores her when she calls out her name. 

"against" font

I'm pretty much done with editing my opening and the last thing I want to do is color grade and after that, I'M FINALLY DONE!!! Kind of. I still need to complete my second CCR, but I don't think it'll take me too long to edit it. All I have left to edit is some B-roll footage for my director's commentary CCR. My next posts will be the final product and I cannot believe I've made it this far. I feel like I'm going a little insane from using Premiere daily, but it's a good insane. I'll see you for the last time in my next post!!!!! :) 

So I leave you with this:

My look of satisfaction when I finished editing: