Draft 1, Draft 2, Draft 3, Draft no more please

We're at a point of the editing when the footages just don't make sense any more. Up to 13minutes, I felt that we were getting to attached to some parts of the documentary. Music too was another issue as it was almost impossible to find a replacement of our current song that represents our subject. I was telling Ezra that he shouldn't have put that song in the rough cut in the first place, because we'll get too attached to the song; and as I predicted, there were no other songs that were suitable.

Having to finish compile all the scenes that we decided to put in, it was time to make the brutal cuts. We had the weekend off to recuperate and look back and what we had compiled, and there were just no possible way that we could cut the story down. Hours were wasted thinking what should we do next; and I decided to take a plunge by removing some of the scenes and deleting most parts that I thought were unnecessary.

Advice : don't spend too much time on your edits as you will get too attached to it. Take some time off and you'll have a clearer picture the next time you see it. At times, you'll realise that the whole sequence is a flop (better not be! ).

Edición

Summary of these two weeks :

Editing is always a pain in the butt. The problem I had with my group mates and the clips were that majority ideas and raw footages weren't in my mind. That's because I haven't been attending our shoots (which again, I really regret), and we had so much problems coordinating with each other.
Our designated editors were Ezra and me; as I wanted a taste of the editing myself, I thought I could make up for the lost time I had at the shoots; and boy that was a bad move. Having to have no prior knowledge of those clips shot, it was difficult for me to come up with a rough storyline.

That's when Goi came to the rescue. Weeks back, Christine made a suggestion to have a full transcript of our footages (which I thought was unnecessary at that time, but obviously proved useful), and she made everyone come up with a rough hard copy storyline. Despite that, it was quite difficult getting our point of views and ideas at the same channel, as we all had our own interpretation of the documentary. It was really difficult getting everyone's agreement as our group weren't at full force (as its submission week right now), hence missing members all the time.

We then decided to pick important parts off the transcript and began compiling those scenes/stories. I realised that we had wasted a lot of our time by just discussing and not actually doing something. We got on the computer and started compiling whatever we think was important. Now lets just see how long the sequence will end up to...

Eva evaluation

I've been neglecting this blog for quite awhile now. Many has happened and theres just so much I can say. This week's lecture was on audio correction - just what I needed. Compared to last semester, I ought to be more prepared when dealing with post production sound. Speaking of which, I reviewed some of the footages that were recorded at one of our shoots (which I regretfully did not attend due to work), and I wanted to slap myself real hard for not following them to the site.
It was the day that we had to follow our subject to his wholesale dealers and boy the clips were not a 'sound-full' sight. There were so many technical errors that could be avoided but because it was all in a rush, there's just so much they could do.

I was surprised about this sem's peer assessments. We didn't get to proclaim our own marks in front of our classmates for some reason - which I think should be an important step because then we'll know who's the one that has been hard working(aka big fat obnoxious liar). =D

I think the key factor that we all need to have is patience, as the editing weeks come ahead, be prepared for some swashbuckling amongst each other!