Editing

Ive never liked editing, its definitely not my speciality but i believe the editing during this animation, especially the audio really enhanced the final outcome.
Unfortunately i did run into a few problems.
i originally wanted a small dark shadow along the edges, however when i created an airbrush boarder the photoshop file wouldn't convert to after effects and when i tried using imovies existing video effects the radial shadow was too over bearing and took away from the movie.

When i originally exported all the files the quicktime player compressed them to the wrong dimensions, this happened three times, so i had to switch computers an convert everything from scratch before editing them properly.
https://vimeo.com/102462551

i created the animation so there would be no need for transitions, thus there was little room for them without cutting into the actually animations, however i found through the editing stages, most of the transitions added to the emotive design of the animations theme so many of these fade to black transitions i hadn't accounted for were more effective than anticipated.
i originally wanted a small dark shadow along the edges, however when i created an airbrush boarder the photoshop file wouldn't convert to after effects and when i tried using imovies existing video effects the radial shadow was too over bearing and took away from the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKu3kfCAQD8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zHl_H6r7Ds

 There were many movies sad and deep songs about love and loss that i could've used but Avril Lavignes instrumental version of 'when your gone' seemed appropriate for the teenage girl angst and was intense enough without words or being over bearing compared to the narrations.
The narrations couldn't be drowned out by the instrumental audio, otherwise the story wouldn't make any sense and it would just be a blurry animation about a girl looking at photos and going to school with alot of judgmental students. The narrations were to bring the whole animation together, however myself not being a voice actor left the narrations not as effective as they should've been.

This was to be the final draft, however the audio was uploaded too loud compared to the narration so i have to go back to garageband and lower the volume of the instrumentals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdcoTRPhVhY&feature=youtu.be