19. editting

We spent yesterday editting the clips we had. We still had one more scene: a scene where LokLok's mom scolds a student for turning someone else's work in as his own. We filmed that scene at lunch, because we were unable to set a sooner appointment date with our actor: Ms. Zhou. LokLok and I still have our files stored on one computer, and therefore we can only work on one of our projects at a time. However, it also has the advantage that we are both really working together and have each other ready for consultation. We captured our second batch of scenes, and sorted through our shots to see which ones we wanted. We had taken many 'just in case' shots, especially in LokLok's case, so it was a real advantage to have someone there to assist decision-making. I am happy with my second set of shots in the studio. I think I look a lot more authentic in the second set than I did the first time, not only because of my 'costume', but also because of the angle and because I tried to include a little more expression and movement this time. We put all our shots onto a basic timeline for our video, and then we went about editting LokLok's video. Watching her clips, we look a bit casual because we went on a history field trip that day and were wearing sneakers. I told her to film us from an angle where our shoes could not be seen, but she thought we would be fine. However, watching the clips have shown me that we definitely look too casual and not like students. We synchronized more sounds with the video clips, such as Mr. Watt's voice with his scene. This is actually quite time-consuming. We discovered how to soften the volume levels for a particular clip - right click --> open 'untitled 1 (or whatever you named the clip) and type in a number of decibels desired in the box at the top. LokLok's video also ends very abruptly, and we were wondering what to do to make it end more smoothly. Ms. Wong suggested that we add in a fade, which we couldn't do. Lucas showed us how to do that later.

At lunch, we filmed the scene of LokLok's mom scolding a student. Our actors are Ms. Zhou as LokLok's mom, and Jerald as the student. We chose Dr. Faunce's office as our setting: it is supposed to look like a home. This is, of course, not an ideal setting as his office still has an office feel. The scene is also supposed to be shot outside the door into the room. However, the door is at such a position that no angle could capture this shot. However, it will have to do because it would be impossible to bring our actors back to our house to film this. We also had a limited time frame due to Ms. Zhou's busy schedule and were unable to film the shot as many times as I would have liked (so I was not able to experiment around and get the perfect shot).

We still have to record sound effects for our video and add effects in.