CCR: Post-Production

My Last Time Editing

    This is officially my last post-production post for this project! I can't believe that I'm so close to being done with this project, after weeks of hard work and dedication I'm almost finished. Since I finished filming quite late yesterday, I decided to wait until today before I started editing. This helped me feel more refreshed and motivated when I began editing this afternoon.

    I started with my first creative critical reflection video and immediately realized that I had said like, uhm, and uh far too many times. Thus, the first thing I did was try to cut out most of the times where I said those words, so that my sentences would flow more smoothly and would be more coherent. This took longer than I expected because I had to make sure the video didn't randomly cut out or look weird after I took out the words. Thankfully I'm pretty certain that it looks and sounds normal now and I'm hoping to cover up any awkward pieces with images. That was really the only correction I had to make to that video, the rest of the editing would be adding in overlays and different images to keep the video entertaining for everyone watching.

    For me, its easier to be on camera alongside someone than it is to be on camera by myself. Therefore, I had to redo my second creative critical reflection, either because I wasn't projecting enough, I would forget my lines or I'd get too awkward. Because I was left with so many clips, I figured I'd just make do with what I had and use the different takes to replace bits and pieces that felt awkward with more confident takes. This is what took up most of my time while editing because by now, I had thankfully learned my lesson and stopped using as many likes, uhm, and uh's throughout my video. The image below shows a couple of the videos that I had gathered while filming.

    The last thing that was left to do was edit all the extra images and examples onto both of my creative critical reflection videos! Thankfully, this was rather easy to do since I already had most of my material at hand, due to my previous blog posts and CCR scripts. And to go into more detail, for the first video, I needed to add in sound effects that are often heard in talk shows, clapping and cheering; for the second video, I needed to add in the questions on the screen; and of course I still had to cite my resources on both of the videos. After doing that, I would officially be done with all three of my videos!