Editing! WOO!

 Yesterday marked our jump onto the editing process for this project, just our first day, but a good start nonetheless. The editing was done with ClipChamp and on Jordyn's computer for convenience. I don't think there is anything better than that, it kept us on track and enabled us to better work together. On Saturday we filmed just about half of our clips, so we wanted to clean those up to be prepared for the next filming day. The first thing done was cutting down the music to the original length of our clips. I helped with the timing, as we all did. The clips were played a few times at varying lengths by Jordyn, and we picked out which ones matched up the best for our music and were most appropriate. After cutting down clips, we worked on making smooth transitions between each video. The program was kind of hard to work because it didn't have as many features as we would have liked, but we worked out the occasional glitching and clips lagging.  In terms of the scenes themselves, we had a couple of problems we attempted to fix, but we will have to continue working on them tomorrow. During our first transition scene with the Brandon walking out of the door, the background seen in the doorway wasn't messy enough for us. Our original concept was to recreate the look of a depressed teen's bedroom, to convey how upset our actor Brandon is, so we wanted the room to look unkept. To try and do this, we decided to attempt to refilm it during our diner run today for the rest of our shots. We may not switch out any clips, but it's good to have options so everyone is happy with the finished product. Another problem was not being able to see the profile pictures and missed texts on our actor's screen. I gave the suggestion of lowering the exposure, and we're going to try to execute this in class. There were some issues with the clip with the front door of the house closing and then the car door closing, it took a fair amount of trial and error to get it lined up properly. Jordyn added sound effects after we achieved the perfect closing. The overall quality of our product so far makes me happy. During the filming of clips, we unintentionally incorporated purple coloring throughout the video, but once edited, it looks beautiful and perfectly complements the overall vibe.