The cutting room floor

 I didn't enjoy the editing process when I made a commercial, and that was only 30 seconds. This project left me feeling the same way, at two and a half times as long as the first one was. This editing process began very very slowly. On school wifi, I had to download everything from my camera roll to my iMovie program. I decided to use iMovie again because it easy to work with. The transfer from gallery to iMovie took an incredibly long time to complete, and I can confidently say it was because of school internet. Once I got everything downloaded, I began editing. The way I filmed was a way that I had "feeder" before the scene started and "feeder" almost like a roll of 35 mm film. This is something I didn't do in the beginning, for the commercial project. I'm very happy I realized I could do this, because it made everything so much easier. It made cropping footage and "dropping to the cutting room floor" a whole lot easier. Although this sped up the process, I can still confidently say this is my least favorite part. Being that today is my first day editing, I wasn't able to get the whole thing edited. I was able to do a good amount of the work nonetheless. Strangely enough, I got most of the odd numbered scenes out of the way, corresponding to lyrics that jump in segment. Most of my editing today was chopping seconds and half seconds off the starts and finishes of each take. I spent a lot of time looking over and reviewing, in an effort to see which takes worked best of me and conformed to the convention the most appropriately. The total length of my footage was well over 1:30, and that was what I had to clean up today. I was able to narrow down the odd scenes to around 1:20. That was exactly what I needed to fit in the shorter even-numbered scenes.