Editing: Production is Finished

 After the editing session of two days ago, the project's production hit an unexpected level of difficulty. The rest of the film was added to the video, but then it was too long. The predicted solution to this problem was to decide which scenes were key to the music video, and which ones were not needed. This worked at cutting the time down, but not enough. So, some scenes needed to be cut from the video that were in the storyboard. While doing this, I had made sure not to cut any scenes that were crucial to the story. If these scenes were cut, it may affect the story and ruin the chronological sense of the story. So, the tracking shots of the group of friends walking or the friends waiting should take up as little screen time as possible. Towards the end of the production process, it was a decision that had to be frequently made, "should this scene be kept, or thrown away?" This took time and effort, as well as more collaboration with my team. My team had given me input on what looks good, and what can be thrown out. This process took longer than expected, as the editing was postponed one more day. In this project, plans tended to not stick, so this situation did not phase me. It was worth the extra time however, as the music video looks very professional. Most of the shots taken are very stable, and there is little camera shake. In the instance that there was camera shake, I would have been able to use the iMovie camera stabilization feature. However, this feature does make the shot cropped by quite a space, so it is good that it wasn't needed in this project. After a few synchronization tweaks to make sure the video matches the audio, the blog was finished! Now all that is left to do is review the blog and watch it many times to make sure it is absolutely perfect. This is an action that will be repeated, as it was done many times during editing.