After our film review, I realized there's still work to do before we can call the film finished. One thing we needed to work on was the lighting. Going back into CapCut, I started playing with filters until I found some that made the clips brighter. I had to choose between Sunlit, One Day, and Oasis. I'm leaning towards One Day. It makes the scene brighter, looks natural, and doesn't have as drastic of a hue as the others. We also turned down the brightness in the places where the sun was causing a glare. Then we tackled audio once more. We decided to do voiceovers for the garage to eliminate the background noises.
We couldn't turn the siren down low enough and still be able to hear Siena, so that wasn't working. We fought long and hard to separate the wind even more from the dialect in the beach scenes. It was hard because there was only so much we could do without switching to a voiceover here. Lastly, we turned to CapCut transitions to help smooth out the passage between scenes. The only one that wasn't drastically obnoxious was called mix. It's a subtle fade, so the scene will easily flow from one to the other without showing that we actually used a transition. It'll look like we did it all in one take. We've exhausted all our options, and there's truly nothing else we can do editing-wise without enlisting the help of a professional. Since we don't know any, we'll have to trust ourselves and make do with what we have. We managed to cut the film to a near-perfect time which shocked me because I felt we were so far from it. We're missing the titles and the end quote, and then we're finished. These are relatively easy to add, so we saved them until the end. I can't believe we're almost there.
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