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Post-Production Diary

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  Day One: 04/04/2022 Today I started editing the footage together. I used Bensound to download royalty free music- so that when I uploaded the finished product to YouTube I would not get a copyright strike.   I also uploaded the first scene of the documentary as a place holder- just so that I could move the footage along to where I wanted it to be. This would allow me to estimate how long the introduction of the documentary would be. I cut the sound from Bensound so that the music would not be playing throughout the documentary- but I have yet to delete it as I ran out of time in lesson. Day Two: 06/04/2022 Today I continued to edit the footage I have captured so far. I ensured that the introduction music cut off at the right place, and deleted the rest of the sound after the first shot began. I added some images of technology that I took over the process of filming into the beginning of the documentary- so that the beginning was not just a black screen with text. I also...

Insta360 Camera Edited Footage

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  In this first edited video, I experimented with different types of zooming throughout the footage using editing. I also experimented with different angles using the editing. I made anchor points throughout the video- and these anchor points were spots in the footage where the zoom or the angle changed. Between two anchor points the footage would slowly transition between one angle and the next without me having to add in the transition myself. If the first angle was very zoomed out from the behind, and the next point was very closeup from the front, the editing software would slowly zoom back in and move so that the camera was pointed towards the front.  In this second version of the footage I included different anchor points, angles and zooms. I did this to experiment with the different types of zooms and angles to the first version of the footage. I wanted to see which zooms and angles looked the best. I made sure to include different angles to the  the first version,...