Editing has officially started!! We are both excited and super nervous as to what this will bring, but I'm looking forward to some challenge ;)
The first step in our day of editing was sending all of the footage we had filmed on my phone to Violette's Macbook because we plan to use iMovie and my own Macbook is very old and slow, so we decided to use hers. We were at school so it took some time to get this done because the Wifi was not on our side that day, but slowly and surely we started to organize the shots in chronological order on the laptop's desktop to keep track of their order. Once we were able to get all of these onto Violette's desktop, we fed them into iMovie.
We watched the entirety of the combination of scenes together without paying to much mind to the length of it just to get a sense of how it looked. Upon this first watch we noticed a few things. First of all, that it would be extremely difficult to get this opening to the 2 minute mark and that we would have to let go of some unnecessary footage and shorten a lot of it as well. I'm happy that there was over-shooting because it allows us to play around with the editing as much as we want, but my main worry right now is choosing the right footage to keep and discard.
This first rough watch also brought to our attention a specific mistake we will have to figure out how to solve. Whenever we filmed our main character driving around, we did this at a different setting than the gas station parking lot hoping there wouldn't be too noticeable of a difference and that it would be safer for our actress since she isn't an experienced driver. However, looking at these shots together it is hard to ignore that change of scenery and it ruins the continuity of the shots. We will have to decide whether to try to re-record this scene in the gas station parking lot again or to use our alternative sequence. We had come up with this alternative before filming because of some suggestions we got during our group meeting in which they told us that it might help us save time to eliminate the driving-away scene at the end. Instead they suggested to skip the car scene altogether and just have the character just throw the heart necklace into the bushes at the end of the opening. This would avoid the need to re-film the car scene and probably take up less time of our total 2 minutes.
After we figure this out we are planning on shortening and adjusting all of our shots so they fit seamlessly together and then we plan on focusing on our parallel editing technique. So far editing has gone great and I can't wait to keep learning about it.
-Sending the clips -Our iMovie set-up
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