For editing the video, I didn't have to do much, just add the credits, and it wasn't much. First, when recording, I already knew the perfect place to put one of them: on the couch in the longshot.
I kept forgetting to record before starting the editing process so they didn't show the whole process; I'll try to cover what I did while recording that wasn't covered in the video. The process itself was incredibly lengthy since I went through various TikTok tutorials on how to make an object move in front of a text. I had to duplicate the same clip and put it as an overlay, then use the remove background to manually remove parts of the overlay so that in the overlay it would be only Leanette with a clear background. Since it was a duplicated overlay of the original clip, there was so way to tell that a background was removed, since it was the overlay I edited, not the original clip (The overlay is the clip on the bottom, the original is the one on the top). After that, I put text onto the original clip and used the layering tool to make the text under the overlay so that Leanette could walk in front of the words. The clip of me editing looks really bad because I put it through CapCut to speed it up, and CapCut diminishes the quality. In the video, I'm checking that the text doesn't like show through Leanette's legs because, for some reason beyond me, I guess the Leanette overlay was too thin so I marked over it again to make it thicker and you wouldn't be able to see the text through her legs.
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For the cast, I just put the text I needed onto where I wanted them to be and for each duration of each piece of text I added a keyframe to the beginning and the end; the beginning keyframe of each frame would position the text where they appeared on the screen and the last keyframe would position them up and out of the frame so that they're not visible anymore. I did this for each piece of text, I just made them appear and leave one after the other. It wasn't that hard. For the movement, they just move themselves once you add the keyframes; however, between the keyframes, I added a graph to make them slide out of the frame smoother. The "Cast" has that paper-ish look--that I finished out of the recording because I had to pay for that specific font since it was CapCut Pro--because that's what I see in most teenage movies from the 2000s, so I didn't want the thriller part to appear just yet. I also noticed that I got Leanette's mom's name wrong, so I fixed that outside of the screen recording.
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For the mailbox scene, this was really awkward. The clip made the video 1 second over the limit. Are you serious? So I had to make it like 2.1x speed but you can notice it's sped up so it looks funky. As for the credits themselves, I had to do the same thing I did for the couch editing scene: I duplicated the clip and made it an overlay, used the removal background so that I could put text on the original text and put that under the overlay. As for how the text moves out, I did what I did in the Cast creditsL I added two keyframes, the first was in the mailbox and the second keyframe was outside the mailbox. The rest of the "Produced by" credits came after. I just put them in the bottom right of the screen and made them appear after the other, but not like the "Cast" credits.════════════════════════════════════
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Finally, the title. This was arguably the most easy part of the whole video, since there were multiple tutorials on how to make text inverted. This is just me putting the title into the video and checking that the inverted text and the original video are lined up correctly and going back and forth because I thought they weren't lined up, What I did was get the clip I was going to put the title over and put it into a whole separate project, then I went to Ibis Paint X and colored the canvas green, then I put "The Survey" onto the middle and chose a font I liked. I downloaded that picture and put it over the whole clip, covering it all. I then downloaded that and put it into yet another different project. What I did was get the clip I was going to put the title over and I made that whole clip inverted in color, I then used the green screen text I made and put it as overlay, again, covering the whole video. I did Remove BG --> Chroma Key and selected the white text, NOT the neon green background. That way the inverted scene could show through the green and replace the letters. I downloaded that and THEN put it into the actual film. I put that as an overlay for the clip I was going to put it over, used the chroma key to select the green base to remove it, and then made sure the inverted scene lined up with the original scene.
This whole process was very, very long. I had fun learning, though.
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