Spring break editing

Thankfully, after a long and hard 3rd quarter, spring break is finally here!!! Although spring break technically started a couple days ago, I leave for vacation early tomorrow morning. Lauren has already left for her vacation, and Callie leaves Wednesday. I am very very excited to go on vacation, however, this week will not be very productive for our project. I will be on out of the country and will not come back until late Sunday night. I won't have any service for the 5 days so I will be unable to work on the project. This is a very major roadblock to our film because Lauren has been away for days and has been enjoying her vacation so she not been communicating with Callie and I about the project. She comes back from her vacation around the same time that Callie and I both leave for our vacations so we won't have any time to communicate with Lauren about what is left to do for the project. Thankfully, most of the project is already edited, and we are very ahead of our other classmates. We were able to stay on track with our original schedule, which allows us to enjoy our spring break and not have to worry about falling behind with the project.

After a long discussion through text messages, our group has decided to take our classmates' advice and go against our original outline for our film. We are going to shuffle the two original parts of the film and intertwine the two scenes to make it look more like a film opening than a trailer. The editing process has been difficult so far because we organized all of the scenes on Callie's laptop according to the original outline, so now we have to dig for the scenes and be creative on how we want to shuffle the scenes. We think the best method is trial and error and playing it by ear, rather than rewrite a new outline. We are going to see which order of the clips flows the best and the continue from there. Our goal is to not have to refilm any of the scenes because we have already returned the rented equipment and are unsure if we can get the same camera, and different cameras may lead to inconsistencies within our film. We have edited a good portion of our film using this technique of trial and error, so we are ahead of most of our classmates, which is very relieving because Callie and I will be unable to work on the project for the remainder of spring break, and Lauren is unable to get the footage and editing software off of Callie's computer.