Finalization of Our Project

Since the deadline for the project is this coming Sunday Jonathan and I wanted to ensure that we didn't wait until the last minute to finish up our opening. On this past Tuesday, he came over immediately after school so we could finish up our editing and the soundscape that we created for the opening.

When we began we were shooting different ideas off each other to see what we had to say about certain cuts and takes that we thought would better in certain case scenarios. Along with this, we had a major discussion about where to place our credits and how they would end up integrating into the opening. For this, we decided to place them into the shots when there was an action or event that had just started. This can be seen in the scene down below right when the car turns on. 

After about 3-4 hours into this process, we were about to finish and Adobe Premiere decided to freeze and obliterate the progress that we had made over that past final hour. We were both annoyed and extremely irritated that we would have to go back and place precise credits again and re-implement some of the sounds that we wanted to use.

In re-doing some of the work we also had to take some of the foley sounds that we made earlier, such as the sound of Jonathan punching the trunk of the car towards the middle of the opening. In trying to get this sound we kept struggling by looking for a metal clanking sound and we even tried hitting pots and pans to make a desirable sound. Ultimately nothing worked and we were going to have to settle for lesser but Jonathan ended up smacking his hand on my bed it sounded interesting so we then tried it a multitude of times and liked how it worked with the scene.

This is the video of us creating that sound effect.

Overall we ended up finishing the edit for our project after a plethora of hours through repeating some of our dreadful cuts. I am quite happy with how the overall piece turned out and I am excited to share it.