Week 8: Finishing Editing for CCR creation

Hey guys! It's been some very intense days of A LOT of work. Most of the work that I have done (if not all) are on the CCR creation, because I have most of the film opening video done already. I have been editing NONSTOP throughout the past day and a half. I'm about 3/4 done with the editing, and I plan on finishing the editing by tomorrow, Saturday, at the latest. Without further ado, let's dive in.

My editing process has been quite simple and not complicated, just VERY time consuming. Because I did the majority of the editing on my film opening video (while my partner focused on cinematography), I was already familiar with the program (using same program as for film opening- DaVinci Resolve). My script has helped me tremendously because as you could see in the last blog, all the highlighted parts were details of the visuals I wanted to add in each specific part of the video. So, my process has basically been:

1. Step One: Cutting the clips to the desired size so it flows nicely

2. Step Two: Going through the video (chronological order) and looking at highlighted notes from script

3: Step Three: Getting desired visuals and adding to each specific portion (pull from online sources, film opening video, research, or make them through websites like Canva)

4. Step Four: Adjusting sound and clip size if needed

I have been doing this throughout my entire editing process for the CCR, and it has worked out very nicely, except it's a very long process because it's a 9 minute video HAHA! Anything for perfection though! To reiterate what I've said previously, I AM VERY, VERY, VERY GLAD that I used DaVinci Resolve. It has been incredibly easy to stack clips, adjust volume on separate clips, and adding transitions. It is far easier and has a lot of more variety than iMovie. Let's look at some examples!

Here are some examples of each of the type of visuals that I am including:

Research:

Movie Clip Examples to Support Statements:

Bullet Point/Slide Info:

Topic Transitions:

Clips from News Events to Support Statements:

Memes:

These are some of the variety of visuals that I am providing in my CCR. To finalize this blog, I want to talk about how I am structuring my video to give you guys an even clearer picture. There was several ways you could approach this video, but I decided to give the information out in this order:

1. Intro (name, etc.)

2. Short summary of film plot

3. Genre 

4. Representation

5. Target Audience

6. Distribution Methods

7. Production Process

8. Technology

9. Final Reflection

The reason that I approached my CCR in this order was because I looked at a few examples that our teacher, Ms. Stoklosa, had provided from previous years, and I really like how one girl did her video by using transitions (like the one I showed above), to shift the topic throughout the video. I also think that this order works well for the flow of the video as one topic leads to the other. 

Well, that's it folks! Next blog (final real blog), I will be giving my last reflection and a little quick update on the final edits to my CCR! We're almost done! You will soon be able to see what you've been waiting forrrrrrrrr!!!

As always,

Natalia Ballinas