Practice makes Perfect

There was not much to do for the project at the time. We had everything prepared and were just figuring out when to film. Due to there not much happening I decided it would be the perfect time to practice editing. I feel like our weakest point in past film has been editing so learning some new skills would be very helpful. I decided the best way to practice would be to make a mini film. I went outside and filmed a few random shots. I then uploaded them to my computer and opened the editing software. The first thing I practiced was transitions. I first decided to watch a few videos to figure out how to do it and found it was very easy to make smooth transitions. The next skill I wanted to learn was figuring out how to use audio on films and how to edit it. This was easily the hardest part of our previous films and learning this would make the process faster and better. This took a few videos as want to learn a few things on editing sound. I needed to figure out how to edit the sound from the video. I also needed to learn the best way to add sound effects. I finally finished off the sound editing by finding good royalty free sounds that could be used for our film. The final thing I wanted to practice was making the intro to our film and making a title. This was a pretty hard process but I figured out after awhile. I tried to make the title a few different ways to test and maybe use one for the film. Although this work has nothing to do with the final film it will greatly improve the final edit and also make it a bit faster. With this practice I also plan to be the main editor of the film.