Editing process

Voice Over and Script process

One of the most important part of my opening film, is the narration. I still have not talked about the script. As I previously mentioned, I waited to have all the footage, so I would know exactly how long each scene was, to fit the words into what was being shown. I already had idea of what to say. When I had arranged all the material, it was time to start working on the script. That day, I went to Starbucks to do this and keep editing. I wanted to be inspired and focused, and it helped. First off, I had to know how long the scenes were and start writing. I wrote this down:

I wrote how long the shots were, and started working here on the script, in Spanish. After this, I started writing it down on the Notes app on my computer. I found it more convenient to do in the computer than in a paper, it would look more organized.

This is the script I ended up using. I did this in a short time, it was easy. I got inspired and since it is based on me, I just put in the narration what I feel. In my opinion, this sound more beautiful in Spanish. I put the script on the translator, but the translator is not that accurate sometimes. So I changed some things while I was doing the subtitles. I still need to change some words in English, I will ask my stepfather some help. I know how to speak English but my vocabulary is not that professional. I think he will know what sounds better, more beautiful. Or maybe what I have is good. 

When it was time to record, I went to my garage and started recording the VO. I thought that the process of recording my voice was going to be more complex. However, it was pretty easy. I watched this YouTube video to start off and help me out. In the videos I watched, a microphone was being used. I was getting concerned because I do not own a professional microphone. Despite of this, I followed the steps that were shown in the video. Of course without microphone. I started recording and the voice was perfect!!! I felt to relieved, because I thought that it was going to sound different without a professional mic. Clearly, it would sound better with a microphone, but I had to work with what I had. I have my earbuds, and i talked directly to the "mic" I guess that helped.

Here are all the tries I did while I was recording. I wanted it to sound good and I messed up in some parts.

This is how my screen looked while recording the VO

This was my first time trying the VO, this day I recorded some and the next day as well.

subtitles

I had mentioned that I had been looking through fonts, I had looked the fonts for the subtitles, while editing. I did not look in other platforms for fonts, DaVinci Resolve has a wide variety of fonts to choose. I will talk about fonts in the next blog. Here, I will focus on the process of creating the subtitles. Before I started editing, I had researched about how to create subtitles in DaVinci resolve. It had shown that they could be generated automatically, however, when it was time to do the subtitles, I noticed that I was not able to do that. I realized that this feature was made for the advanced version of this platform, not for the free one. Therefore, I found the way to do them myself. It is pretty easy, it just requires its time. This was a part of the process:

It was a process that took its time but it's worth it. In the next blog, I will go more in depth in the decision of the fonts of the subtitles, credits and title.