Editing Blog

Hey guys! I'm back again with another blog.
     So we finally got to begin editing, editing is actually more fun than I thought it would be. In the beginning it was semi frustrating because it was kind of determining what would look good in the commercial. But once you got started it went so quickly, the way everything came together was really cool to see. However you always had to watch closely cause there were a lot of parts that had to be cut and added and flipped and jump cuts. In other words,  a lot had to go into editing. As much work went into editing it was honestly really fun. Editing is like watching your visions for a show come to life, it's the most satisfying feeling when everything comes together. It was really frustrating the first day we really started editing because I had to download my footage from my google drive and transfer it to my desktop, the only problem was it moved in a zip folder. So I had to unzip the folder and transfer them to a new folder, but it was taking so long. It took almost the whole class before I decided to redo the transfer and it worked so much faster. So next class I quickly got a laptop and got to work, I had looked at the footage a little in the previous class so I already had an idea of what I wanted to do regarding the order of the footage.
        So after somewhat getting everything in order I watched how it looked and began to make my changes and cutting what needed to be cut to make sure that my commercial was the proper length. It was very stressful because there was a lot of footage that had to be put into a 30 second commercial. I would be lying if I said there weren't times where I just wanted to scream and say "okay I'm done" because it was so stressful and slightly aggravating. However, even with all the frustration I enjoyed making my visions come to life. Doing this kind of makes me excited for the music video project because I now have a broader "canvas" if that's what you want to call it. I can ask my family to be actors, and go to different places. Editing in itself is really fun though.
         So basically editing is an extremely long process that takes so much patience. It is definitely frustrating when you're working with someone because a lot of the time you guys have very different visions and end up not seeing eye to eye with the film. I even had the problem, we weren't seeing eye to eye for the ending of our film. It was already becoming longer than it had to be and she wanted to continue to add things but I told her that we can't do that because it would make things too long. But eventually we ended up understanding what each other were trying to say, and worked around the issue. After all the editing work was done, we added the music that went with it and it worked out perfectly. It was actually kind of fun to do. But in the end we got it all done in one day and I really felt like my life was together lol. See you guys next time.

Tay <3