BLOG 39: CUT & TRIM PT.3

BLOG 39: CUT & TRIM PT.3

Hey, lovely💞, welcome back to my blog!

    Today blog will be about the final day of editing. If you're a frequent reader, you would know that this is the third day already. It's tiring at this point, but I will push through and fill you in with the tea. With that being said, let's DIVE into today's content!!🌊🤿

    On the third day of editing, I and Little Miss #2 had officially turned into zombies. The only THING we could feel was tiredness; however, the urge to finish this project MOTIVATED us to keep moving. We understand that the result will be worth all the efforts we put in for this project; hence, we dedicated our last breath on this final day. Similar to other editing days, we assigned the ending and the sound area as part of the checklist that needed to be finished on the third day. The first thing that we did was add a hand-made (by me 😚) illustration of white smoke on a gray background to use as a base for our opener title. It truly has been an error and trials to find the SUITABLE background color. At first, I decided to go for a peachy color, the same color as Gigi's jacket, but it turns out to be too dark. Next, I went with a lighter shade of pink, but it looked too artificial so I at last chose a gray background to MIMIC the real smoke. Moving on, it's now time for the title's color; after some deliberation, we decided to use the same color with the cake's decoration, chocolate brown. To finally complete this area, we added a slight shadow to truly make the title stand out from the smoky background.

   

    Now looking back, we truly underestimate the DIFFICULTY of adding the soundtracks. At first, we decided to leave the sound for last, as we all thought "extract, insert" were all we had to do. However, the reality SLAPPED our faces real hard; as the sound editing process took us an additional 4-5 hours. We keep going back and forth to get the sounds to flow to each other seamlessly. We thought starting the opener with the song might be too sudden so we used a bird chirp sound effect for the first 12 seconds to SET the atmosphere and then added in the official soundtracks. For each transition, we have to manually decrease and then increase the sound to ensure a smoother transition. Another significant sound is Gigi's dad's voiceover. When these diegetic sounds are about to begin, we decided to MUTE all background sounds to enhance the DRAMATIC atmosphere of Gigi dad's sudden notice.