Editing Part 2

Editing Dilemmas 

So Im not going to lie... I have a confession to make. The reason I am not blogging much about editing are because to two reasons. 1) My partner Leandro is going to be the main editor for the project (Of course I will still contribute) 2) We have been procrastinating.

Although we got the filming done pretty fast, we have not been so productive with the editing. I have already uploaded all of the film and we have started the editing beginning of the opener, however, we are working slow. To be fair, we do have this upcoming week in our schedule to finish editing. Leandro and I are in the process of overcoming this procrastination but we are reaching some dilemmas. The challenges that I have been assigned to overcome are the title and whether or not we should include some credits.

Title

We had no trouble choosing our film title "Dead End." We even figured out how we want to display the title very quickly. Like mentioned in a previous blog post, we wanted the title to mimic a license plate. The issue is that we haven't found the best service to edit this on. First, I tried editing the title on Mac Pages. I looked up a template of a plain Florida license plate which was pretty simple. However when tt came to placing our title, it was coming out slightly wonky looking. We also tried looking online to see if there was a "license plate maker" online. Unfortunately, most of the "makers" looked unprofessional or blurry. I think we are going to stick to editing our own title. This time around I may use Microsoft Word or download some new editing service I find.

Credits

Obviously a large portion of the opener consists of the credits. We have already established the fact that the credits will appear on objects placed around the car. A dilemma we're facing is whether or not we should place our "production company" logo at the beginning of the film as well. We placed the logo on an object in the car but we think it may look more professional if we also place the logo clearly in the beginning. We are also unsure if we should give credit to the copyright free music we are now incorporating. If we did so we would have to type it on the screen which wouldn't align with the rest of the credits aesthetic. As of now, we are leaning towards placing the "production company" logo twice and not giving credit to the song artists.