Day 1 of Editing


 Welcome back to my blog. Today is my first day of editing. I decided to use Imovie because I have ran into too many problems with a final cut pro in the past. I imported all of the clips that we have previously filmed in the application. Then I took the establishing shot of the neighborhood and cut it into seven parts. I minimized them to 2.5 seconds each. I froze the second clip. Then I added the title of our film "Life for Life: A Losing Game."  The title is bold with a "spilt"' transition. I muted all of the seven clips and added each actor's name. The next clip is of Akiel walking. I think I need to find a suitable instrumental to go along with it.  I have to find an instrumental that we can use because I doubt we are going to be able to use the DMX song. Recently, DMX has been hospitalized and his team emailing us back is the last thing on their mind. I have done some research about the instruments that I will use. I may use an instrumental with a dark/ heavy beat. I think that will suit the theme that our group is trying to portray. Tomorrow my group is going to film. Hopefully, this is our last day and I can finish the editing and send it to them for some feedback. I have some ideas that I do not know if it will go through. Maybe I should add heavy transitions on certain clips to improve the quality or just leave it the way it is.  

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