Beginning to Edit

 For this project, I am doing most of the editing. Since Sophia is more artistically talented, she and I both agreed that I would stick to the technological aspects. To begin, I compiled the clips that I had into my iMovie application on my computer. Since my partner and I filmed quite randomly, I had to put these in the right order. Next was choosing the clips to use. Sophia and I met up and watched each of the clips until the best one was found. I did this with her for each scene. One each clip had been chosen and saved, I went to iMovie and deleted all of the other clips. For me, this is the easiest part of filming. It is also the most satisfactory, to have only my raw footage to work with and nothing extra. After this I had to watch what I had so far. With the raw footage, I had over 9 minutes of film. It was quite a challenge for me to know what to keep and what to cut. After snipping the unnecessary beginnings and ending of clips and the spare seconds I had about 3 minutes. The next part was speeding up my clips. I worked with Sophia for this part. She helped me decide whether the clip needed to be sped up or not, and how fast to make it. Often if a clip is sped up too much, it looks very unrealistic. That was not the goal for this film. After this I called it a day. Overall I am proud of the editing I have done so far.



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