End of editing!

 I think we're pretty much finished with my final! I am going to sleep on my decision and see how it is tomorrow, after I am going to show it to my family and see if they have any tips for me!

It was frustrating throughout parts of this editing process because although it didn't ever look or sound BAD, it wasn't perfect. I struggled a lot with this thought, and although it's still not perfect, I think I've tried to the best of my ability to make it closest to the vision I had in my brain. 

For this part of the editing, the sound effects on the imported audio clip during the piano scene drove me crazy! I managed to line up all the clips into synchronizing with the audio. While filming, I played the music in the background, so although my actor doesn't know how to play piano, she could at least hit the keys on beat. What the issue was, was when the audio did not sound diegetic. I wanted it to echo and reverberate just as all the other audios did in the film. I realized I had to mix my audio with a reverb effect. For the piano playing clips, I used a regular reverb, but for the memories, I added a different type which made the audio sound like it was coming from another room. I was really happy with this outcome, and finding out about all the different effects and even maybe mixing a certain sound on a different app, this can help my editing in the future to make everything seem even more realistic. 

This was the second most tricky part about editing... The flickering clips in the face still don't sit right with me, but I can't figure out any other way to make it look better. I changed the pacing of it to start slow so you could see what is happening briefly, and than it picks up pace with the ticking audio to build the proper suspense. 

I think despite these struggles in editing driving me up the wall, I learnt loads about sound editing and I think it's going to come really handy in my future projects for when I have to layer audio again to fix an issue that happened in beforehand filming!!