Editing Process

 The Editing Begins

    Editing is a crucial part of the production of a film because editing is a time consuming and detailed process of choosing, cutting, and putting together different clips to form the start to finish of a film. In this case, for our opening my partner and I are in charge of everything including coming up with a story, scripting it, filming it, and now we have reached the editing portion. Editing doesn't only involve putting clips together, it involves creating foley sounds, and finding the perfect non copyrighted music that fits our thriller opening. With editing, we want to make sure all of our hard work during the filming process pays off through our learned editing techniques within the Aice Media course.

    The storyline of any film can be told through it's dialogue, characters, lighting, and mise-en-scene elements, but without the editing the story can't be fully developed with those moments of tension, control, and even pace of certain scenes. This stage of editing allows my partner and I to really set the scene of our film, enhancing the mood, tone, and message of our story. 

    Since yesterday, we have put together all the filming material together onto a digital program that we will be using to edit called Adobe Premier Pro. We found that this may be the easiest editing platform to use since we had used it previously for another project, and became familiar with the software. This software works really well for editing long videos, so it will be a great resource to use for our film opening "The Seventh Lie."

    My personal goal with this editing process is to get a better understanding of what it means to be an actual editor of a film, and learn to appreciate them whenever I watch a movie or show, noticing the techniques fitting together like every puzzle piece to create the final masterpiece.

Source:

American Film Institute. (2023, May 31). What is film editing and what does a film editor do? AFI.