Please take note of the time this blog is being posted, yes because this is exactly what time I’m awake and still doing my editing. Piece of advice for anyone who wants to do what I’m doing, drink more water, it helps reduce the hallucination.

The joy of every editor….Arranging sequences.

Jokes aside, let’s get to the serious topic. Continuing from what I did in production, I was pretty clear on what I wanted to achieve in post-production. Thanks to the planning in earlier stages, and the notes I took down in during production, I edited most of my footages with ease. I didn’t encounter much problems with editing as editing has always been a strong point in my filmmaking skills. The real struggle I had was deciding on the style that I wanted to go with. Yes I did decided to go on a more “whiplash” look in the earlier stages, but due to certain obstacles I faced, I had to tone down the look and create another different look. It is some what similar, but different at the same time.

To add on with the point I had in my earlier blog post, this picture serves as evidence for the limitations of using a DSLR for filming. It didn’t make the editing easier either due to the compressed video, I didn’t have much flexibility controlling my highlights and shadows, this in result caused limited the amount of grading I could do in my film. In the attached image above, the highlight is clearly blown out, probably 3 stops overexposed and I could really do much to save it. Luckily that frame only last a few seconds and is hardly noticeable. You really start to see the flaws in using a DSLR once you have experience editing, luckily for me I’ve took in to account most of these errors and worked my way around it. Part 2 will discuss more on how to color grade, and how I achieved my look.