Editing blog: making the right durations

 Once all the films were aligned in order like they needed to be, I had to make sure the timing was right. This included both editing and speeding up the time. Some scene was not included in the film because it dragged out the time. To begin with, the first editing was done on my at-home laptop. What had to be done was run the entire film. Once I did that I saw the film went a little over a minute. So I had to go back and check and see which scenes to cut down even more. I first cut down the first opening scene by a couple seconds. I cut a scene where there was a bit of dialogue with me and one of my actors. This gave me less time which was good for the film. Then another scene was cut that was just drawing. In a way the scenes were cut they looked like jump cuts. The decoration around the flower was cut very short. Then more editing came into play. In the scenes where I discovered a long amount of drawing, I sped up the time. Even more so I added happy music in the background to give it a happy feel. Speeding up the scenes allowed the music in the background to nicely correspond with the overall scenes. The next following scenes were also cut down. In the ending scene, I made sure to add a voice just saying what paper mate gives customers which is the gift of sharing. By doing all of this, I achieved a time of 37 seconds.