Editing our film - Further improvements

Blurring out our faces when we show up in the third scene

    We have continued to edit our video over the last few days and have made numerous improvements. The major issues also have largely been solved, but there's no doubt much more work remains to be done before we have our final product. Here are some of the changes we have made:

    One of our biggest problems occurs during the third scene, while Daniel drives alone. As he talks to himself, he drives right past the rest of the cast, who all show up clearly in the driver's-side window. This was an issue we did not originally anticipate, and is relatively noticeable, as when we initially showed our clips to the cast, they immediately noticed the problem. I took care of this problem in HitFilm Express by using the Witness Protection tool, which creates a smearing filter over an oval-shaped area.

    

    I stacked multiple of these over the windshield of the driver-side window in order to fully block out any view of the faces. However, this has brought upon another worry, as we instantly display the blur, it easily catches a viewer's eye. We don't need to sacrifice watchability for story though, in a future post we will show how we attempted to make the scene flow well.

    As for the radio segment, we have decided to forgo adding it as we didn't find the proper space to put it in. Even though this may take away from our project somewhat, the length of the video assigned to us is extremely short already.

A crossfade transition in the audio

    Another complication we resolved was having the audio flow smoothly. We used crossfades between the audios of all of the scenes in order for the ambient noise not to abruptly change. Perhaps there's a better way to go about doing this, and we may search for alternative solutions if we have more time.

    We'll keep you all updated as we get closer towards the end of our project!