Beginning the Editing Process (Scenes 2-4)

     To begin the editing process, I had to export the videos that I recorded from my mother's phone to my computer. For context, my mother's phone was used because it has better video quality than mine. This took much longer than expected. My first idea was that I should export the videos via google photos. That way, it would be easy for me, and my group mates, to access the photos from a variety of devices. However, my mother's phone is used for work so she didn't want me downloading the app unless I had to. This led to me exporting the videos by email, where I would then share them with my groupmates. I thought that doing it this way would decrease the quality of the videos, however, I found that they still looked good when downloading and viewing the videos. Some videos were a bit too large, so if this were the case I found that I could export the photos to my computer, which would then automatically export to my google drive since I use a Chromebook. However, after a bit of time my mother told me that I could not use the email method as done before. This led to me then using the method that I would use if I were exporting larger files. Even though I had thought that this method would be slower, I found that it actually was faster. It also worked out better, because I was then able to put each of the videos in a folder on my google drive. Although this might seem like a small menial task, exporting the videos took a large portion of my day and took much longer than expected.

    After many hours of exporting, I was finally able to begin editing the first few scenes of our opening sequence. My group decided to meet on google meets so that we could all discuss how to edit each portion and more. Unfortunately, Jessica was unable to meet at the time we started the meeting so just Juanita and I decided to edit it together while Jessica came in to edit with us at the end. To start off the meeting I organized each of the shots by scene so that it would be easier when we started editing. While I was doing this, Juanita reviewed each scene. Then, once this was done, we began editing. Juanita would edit the videos, physically, while I would collaborate and help decide where to trim the videos and which clips to add, since I recorded several options. Overall, it was a pretty fun process and was humorous to see the outtakes of my mother acting and me directing. The main thing we did for this part of the editing process was  trim the video clips and decide which ones to add.