Mandarin Proj >.<

17 Jan.

That was the first day of my editing(I think). We shot a couple of videos so I guess this was the right time to start the editing already.

In that day, I did tagging or renaming the footage to their respective scene number. That was the most boring part of the process. I'm never gonna do that again.

After tagging. I did syncing. I now laid each footage to premiere pro and sync the two videos because we use two cameras. In syncing, I always want to view the waveform panel in layers. In that way I can see in which part Myra shouts scene _ take_ ACTION! Those three sounds is very noticeable in the waveform thingy. It makes syncing easier. Then I will adjust them a bit to make sure they sound really good.

I finished until scene 10 only.

Along with syncing, I also downloaded the soundtracks that we need on my other laptop. I also downloaded all of the sfx to use.

18 Jan.
I finished laying out most of the movie. It reached for about 30 min. I transferred all sound files to my other laptop and started dropping annd timing them on the scene. It didn't go well. It sounds really bad. Do you know Vines? Vines are 6-7 seconds of video with simple and sometimes hilarious theme. Some of them have background music. Now for our project, most scenes last for only 15 secs. Which is totally bad. The parts where I was ordered to put background music sounds like Vines. Personally, I don't like that to happen because it will not be effective to show the mood to the viewers. So I decided to find some good instrumentals.
I used one soundtrack that we used to our previous mandarin project. I put it in the end where things starts to get better.

24 Jan
I added some footage to the timeline. I also attempted to sync Lucy's voice to the older footage but it didn't go well. I have thought to just retake it again. I thought of a new method to make sure the audio syncs with the footage. We are going to do the method of dubbing. Not really dubbing but that's how it goes like, She have to wear ear phones or head phones and connect it to my laptop. The footage will be played on my laptop and a camera is directly listening at her. It's like she will be the one to be syncing.

I also finalize the background music and the sfx.

25 Jan.
Today my goal was to give a nice look to the movie. I only selected those bad looking footage. What I mean by ugly videos is when it is too dark, to bright, mismatching white balance, etc. So I color corrected some footage.
I also added some effects like flare effects to some of the footage.


My plan next week is to finalize everything. Maybe I could render the video at the first week of Feb. or 4th week of Jan. Then by 2nd week of February, I'll work on the English subtitles.


Okay that's it.