Final edits

 Today was finally the day Jalin and his father were able to film! This was by far the quickest filming day. Other than the fact that we needed a very few shots, Jalin and I hopped on the phone before he arrived, and we immediately got to work. For the blood on Maverick's wrist, we used food coloring once again. Instead of using fake blood, we figured that food coloring would look more realistic than fake blood, which sounds weird to say. The reason we chose food coloring was because of the texture it created with the bandage. Fake blood would be too gooey. The filming process took about 25 minutes because we still overshot. Many shots that we had did not even make the film because while editing, I made the final decisions of what made the film opening.

The editing process was fairly easy aswell. My job was to decide which shots made the film and which ones did not. We had a plethora of shots, but because the video must be under 2 minutes and 10 seconds, some shots did not make sense due to the fact that they needed more context.

For example, we planned an over the shoulder shot of Maverick looking up Dr. Mueller's new medicine. We realised that the shot would not add anything to the plot, and it would take up very valuable time. Not to mention If the search led to something, it would have simply been too much information in the first 2 minutes.

The shots that I decided to incorporate instead were ones with Maverick stressing out, sitting down with papers all over the floor. This was an extra element of Misce-en scene. The messy hair and floor further emphasized the messy and stressful situation Maverick was encountering.

An extra detail we added was adding more blood 5 hours later to show that the effects were only getting worse. The shots I settled for made the blood more vissable which made me more confident in the decision I took.

When Maverick found out the news, we decided that looking at his cut would show the audience he connected the dots on why he had been randomly bleeding. I decided that an eyeline match would truly emphasize this, and the close-up of his wrist highlighted the severity of the bleeding.

The only challenge I faced was getting the timing right once again. I wanted to keep the audio coming from the TV on the over-the-shoulder shot of Maverick typing, so I needed to perfectly time the cut from the actual program to the shot of Maverick typing.

The last editing procedure I took was layering the foley sound of the computer keys over Maverick typing. This was fairly easy because all I did was slightly lower the volume and extract the sound from the video.

Overall i had a blast editing this, and I look forward to editing again. So far, editing has been one of my favorite parts of producing, other than directing. These processes allow me to see everything come together from nothing, which is a fun process to be a part of.