Week 24

 As we start editing our final project, my partner and I are becoming more and more eager to play around with new tools and techniques. By this point in the class, I'm getting pretty comfortable with Adobe Premiere Pro, and it's been great to be able to experiment with some new tricks. Our footage looks pretty solid on its own—we really put a lot of work into the cinematography—but we’ve been playing around with a few creative editing elements to take it to the next level. We've tried color grading to enhance the mood and tone, added graphics for a touch of visual flair, experimented with text masking to get cool text animations, used transitions to make our cuts smoother, and spent time on music and sound mixing to have the audio perfect and create the right atmosphere. We've been rushing around putting it all together, and watching the footage in retrospect, it's amazing what we've done. Both of us attempted to leave everything we had on this project, and I think that comes through in the work that we've accomplished so far. All the work that we've put into it has literally been paying dividends, and one can see it in the overall quality of the film on so many different fronts. This has been an enormous learning curve for the two of us, not only technically but also in learning how to make a story work within a film.