Group editing

 Hey blog! This past Saturday, my team and I got together to start editing the clips that we have for our opening film. Our screenwriter, Clara, is out of town in Brazil, so she could not make it to this editing session, but we missed her and decided to include her in our selfie...

HAHA. Anyways, the editing session was really successful and really got us ahead in our process. It was also cool to see how our work was coming together. Something I noticed is that editing really brings all that we have been working on to life. Before, what we had were just random, disorganized clips, but we brought them all together to create the story we had planned, and it was cool to see. 

We started off by organizing all of the clips into different folders. For example, any clips from the scene of Tina in her office, we labeled "office scene" so that we could use just those when editing that scene. Vanessa and I were mainly using VN to edit, which I researched on in my last blog post, but Zain showed us a couple of tricks on Adobe Premiere, which was really informative. 

Here is a glimpse into the timeline in the adobe editing site.

Another hard lesson I had to learn during this editing process is just how long it really takes. When editing the first two establishing shots together, it took us at least 15 minutes to locate the clips, trim them down, color grade them, and conjoin them on the timeline. And this was for just 5 seconds of our opening. Thankfully, Zain is experienced with editing so she was there to guide me. So far, all we have edited are the clips together. Now we have to incorporate sound, text, credits, and all of the other details.