34.) Editing Pt. 2

 Helloo!! Welcome back or welcome to my blog!! It feels like it's been forever since I spoke to you guys.😢😢 In this post, we are running it back to editing. After tons of new footage being filmed and our story progressing inch by inch, my group and I gathered together to finalize our editing. Now, If I'm going to be honest, this finalization was definitely NOT easy!!! 

So initially, the task of editing mostly fell on Mariana as she volunteered to be the editor. This however did change to adapt to our time crunch and teamwork efforts. By the time it came to edit, each and every one of us spent time working on certain parts. We basically rotated the device between the four of us sporadically; This had so specific direction or order, whenever one of us had an idea or felt confident to make a change, we just did! I will say, this process made me sooo grateful for my group. We all had great ideas, and we created an atmosphere where anyone could openly voice their ideas and pursue them with the approval of the rest of the group. Working on this with my girls made me realize how creative all of us really are! 

Now, let's backtrack a bit... What was our final editing day even like? Basically, on our last shooting day we all decided to gather back at Mariana's house to complete our finishing touches + finish editing. Long story short... filming the last few scenes took wayyy longer than expected, leaving us with limited editing time. As we all were a bit worried, we didn't stress too much because we were very determined and confident in our collaboration skills. This team morale didn't take us very far though! 😀 We ran into stressful issues with our devices and editing software ( I'll get into further detail in a later blog... it still pains me to think about😖😖) These complications felt like a huge setback in the moment. I mean, think about it, we had been filming ALL DAY, we finally finish, we are pumped up and ready to edit (even though it's already 10pm), and when we think we can get to work, NOTHING is working on our side. I will say, stress and hostility was pretty high within the group at this point because we were on a huge time crunch due to the time taken up during our 3-day college trip.

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us trying to figure that mess out...

Given this issue, we decided to recoup the next day and LOCK IN!!! Thankfully, we had a day off from school, so it was perfect. I'll just say this: That day couldn't have went better. When I tell ya'll we locked innn!!! All of us decided to meet back at Mariana's house at 10am!!! Pretty early but we all had things to do that day, so we faced yet another time crunch. Even though we did exceed the time we thought editing would take, it was definitely worth it. Like I mentioned earlier, we collaborated very well when it came to editing responsibilities. The key was to keep an open communication of what we wanted our final product to look like and to be patient with ourselves and each other. The ipad we used basically just got passed around between us all at different times. By around 4:00pm, we were so close to the finish line. We edited the entire day!!!.. with the exception of taking a food break for Wingstop😅😅. At this point, we all had to start heading home, and we only had a couple finishing touches left to edit.