Editing and audio updates

 I announced in here that I would start to edit the first scene of my film opening, which I did, but I expected it to do go much more smoother and faster than what it did. I have about 17 seconds of my film already, with only 2 shots in the main timeline, as seen in the editing bar at the left. If my film opening should be 2 minutes, which is a total of 120 seconds. By doing simple math, that means I have 103 seconds left, which is still a lot of time, but I need to be careful with how much of a certain shot am I willing to show. I did cut some frames out of the 2 clips that I put inside the film, starting from my oven than before it, as well as cutting some seconds in the beginning the bathroom scenes. This where not as important as other scenes, because I actually did not accounted for them in my shot list nor in my storyboards; either way, I need to be prepared in cutting scenes that I actually did what to include and be able to explain why I had to delete it and do not compromise the integrity, themes, mise-en-scene and moral of the story. I will announce those decisions and point to what scene I will actually throw out or edit very differently than when I was drafting my shot list. 

Though I said that I will be able to concentrate in one particular scene at a time, I do not think that technique is actually useful at the time. If this film opening was compared to taking an exam, it is not recommendable to concentrate in only one section at a time and make that section be perfect, which you could get stuck but not move because you want one part to be "perfect"; those who use that method will usually not have time to complete the following sections and have sections with very different levels of quality or not completed at all. For that, I want my film to be coherent and not be seen as chunks of different scenes stitched together. Also, putting all of my raw footage in the order that I wanted it to be and then notice how they integrate with each other will help me realize how much raw footage I have in total and how much I will have to cut in general, instead of committing the mistake of cutting too much in one section due to it being too long and then having another section that actually has more material to eliminate and could balance the time out. I will want to publish that first draft of my edited film, at least some parts of it and to be seen compared to with my raw footage. I need to figure out the different types of cuts and transitions I will be using, the terminology for them, since I tend to find my transitions that I am doing now to be too "rough" or not understandable, will fix that this afternoon. 

In the middle of my planning to shot and acquire the materials I will need to edit, I realize how I will need to include some of my own sound effects and diegetic sound. For example, the response for Mariposa's Dad on the phone. While I did not find it useful to have my Dad call me and pick up the audio from the phone, because it will echo through the house due to being so close, I went with the route of editing my own sound. Though I did not find any tutorials or help to directly do it in HitFilm nor in any other free video editing software that was available to me,  I did find this app called Audacity. It is a free audio editing software, which I did find many tutorials and instructions to make an audio recorded sound as if is coming from a telephone. It also had the function to alter the pitch and certain other aspects of the audio, which the video software does not have, and will also help me directly with the creation of non-diegetic sound, the screeching from the refrigerator and disturbance sound that I will record from my piano. The software layout looks like the screenshot that is at the left, once again, much more advanced and not as user friendly as those recording memos apps that are on smartphones. However, it is free to use and install in the computer, which are the biggest pros for me, and will get me to check the audio separately and then insert it to my film. This presented tutorial is for one of the specific reason that I chose it:

I have some recordings from my Dad, need to check those again or ask him to record the dialogue to be exported again. I will try to include all of the following effects as well through this system. Need to still be even more aware of my time, I only can use Audacity, again, in my home computer, for the same reason that I can only use HitFilm Express in my home computer.

Citations:

“Audacity 2020 My Updated Tutorial Telephone Sound Effect.” Youtube, Double J-Show, 10 Aug. 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4YODo-Sf3s.