Editing Struggles


    After Sophie sent the shots in order to Elena’s email, she uploaded them on to Capcut. It took a bit longer than usual due to the increase in number of clips that had to be uploaded. After it was uploaded, she trimmed down the scenes to when they looked like start and end by just looking. This had to be done to the best of her ability as it was on the school computer with no sound. This step had to be redone at Elena’s home computer when she could actually hear when there was a “go” at the beginning and when the dialogue ended. After clips were trimmed, she realized a few were missing and Sophie sent the rest to her. Elena took the time to trim and volume control these additional clips. Then Elena volume leveled by raising up the volume on several clips so that they were all relatively the same volume. She also used the volume leveler button on capcut and added a “dagger being unsheathed”, “weapon smashing”, “and “strings suspense” sound affects around the attack scene. At this point Elena realized that the video was over by 20 seconds and this was a massive mistake. 

    We debated about which scenes we should cut and trim up without losing any important story line. We decided that it would best to cut half of Vampire Hunters monologue. Losing the monologue was a hit since it provided background to the story which is crucial in an opening scene but we had no choice. If there were any scenes what went on for too long without anything happening, we would’ve cut those but there was none. After the monologue was trimmed, we cut out the running shot of Aurelia’s shoe slamming on the ground. This was one of Elena’s favorites and she really didn’t want to get rid of it. A drastic sacrifice we had to make was changing up Aurelias and vampire hunters first monologue session. We still had to cut more and decided to cut Sophies “filthy human” line, mute the surrounding scene and put ominous music. That way you hear Vampire hunter say his first line and then see him walk up to Aurelia in a frightening tone. We felt the switch from “muffled by the wind dialogue” to “evil character walks up to good one in scary music” created more of any emotional impact.  


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