#2: Editing Baby! February 5th 2009

Today we were supposed to spend the entire lesson editing our footage that we took last lesson of the different Cinematography scenes and techniques that we were supposed to achieve in our footage. However, I totally forgot to bring my tape to school unfortunately. This mistake will never occur again. Thus, because of this unfortunate incident, my group and I had to redo the entire task sheet. Contrary to assumption, this was not a very hard task to fulfill, since we have already done it before, so we all knew what we needed to do. It took us 20 minutes to film everything, 25 minutes less than last lesson. After filming all the footage, we imported it all to Final Cut Pro, cut out all the useless takes, added in Video Effects like Color Changer and Text. We ended up finishing our final product by the end of class :D

I felt very guilty at the beginning of the lesson because I ended up letting my entire group down by forgetting to bring the tape in. I repeat, this mistake will never happen again, not as long as I am doing Film at least. However, my group members and I bonded very well together through re-filming. I have never worked with some of my group members like Jerald and Marcus Yau so it was a really good chance for me to get to know them better. Not only that, I feel that we all work better under pressure. We did not waste time, we did not loiter about and cause a fuss, we all just concentrated on the task ahead and tried our best to make up for lost time. In the end, it turned out we did.