We got together today and spent a good 5 hours editing our opening. We're still nowhere near finished. We haven't quite filmed any of the sound yet or acquired any of the music we'll be incorporating. So, we simply dragged our clips into our free trial of Premier. We spent a bunch of time putting them in order and cropping them to be just the right length. We skipped to the second part of our opening because we didn't have the previously mentioned lighting problem with those shots. We ended up getting a solid minute in place, but that's a minute without any audio. It's going to be a struggle to get this thing finished.
On the bright side, the group as a whole learned a lot about editing with Adobe Premier. It was a lot of trial and error, but I'm happy to say we know how to do a variety of things now. We trimmed clips, split video and audio clips to delete the audio, zoomed in to an almost microscopic level for the exact frame we were looking for, created adjustment layers, got rid of our adjustment layers after realizing we didn't need them, messed with some transitions before realizing they looked bad, and even sped some clips up. Shout out to Adobe in a Minute on Youtube for teaching us basically everything we didn't know how to do. Things were getting pretty frustrating before. None of us knew what we were doing and things were rapidly going downhill. We may have had a real murder on our hands without this individual.
It was quite the journey. Now that we're more comfortable with the software, it should be much easier to finish up the video tomorrow. I can't wait for Adobe to take away the program in roughly 25 days so everything I learned will become meaningless.
The audio front is not looking as good. We plan on getting our dialogue recorded tomorrow. It shouldn't take very long since our script is literally 6 lines long. After that, we're going to have to record a bunch of other sounds like doors opening and closing or lights shutting off. We also need to find some nice royalty free music that fits into our movie. The last thing we want is a copyright suit from Justin Beiber or something. Ideally, we're looking for one fast paced pop song for the start of the opening, and a creepy/spooky song for the rest of it. Sebastian said he was going to take care of that, but we'll see how that goes. What I'm really looking forward to is when we try to create some ambient noises as well as our notification noise. Apple's aren't royalty free so we have to make our own. I don't know how, but we'll figure something out. As for the ambient sounds like crickets, cars, and owls, I'm excited to create those noises using my mouth. I make a great whoosh noise for the cars, but the other two will be a bit more challenging.
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