Finishing Trimming and Adding the Clips to my Final Task

     After we finished filming the opening sequence, we decided to complete the trimming and addition of clips portion of editing. Although we were feeling a bit lazy the day of editing, we all decided to band together and try to finish this project with time to spare. I also was a little bit scared that we would have to cut off several scenes of the task and create a new storyline to fit the time limit. So, I definitely wanted to get this section of editing done just in case we would have to refilm the entire sequence again. We began by meeting via google meets. We all talked for a little bit and while we were doing so Juanita and Jessica exported the scenes we had filmed to our shared google drive folder, as seen below. 

    Juanita also exported the scenes to the editing software, iMovie, as well. Once we started editing, the process went pretty smoothly. Juanita would add in clips while Jessica and I would help her by letting her know how long to cut the shot to and which shots we should use, since we filmed several of the same shots. The process took quite a bit of time, because when we started we just added in the clips and trimmed them. We then realized that we were about 20 seconds over the 2 minute limit once we had finished and hadn't included room for title cards either. We then had to go back and edit the entire sequence so that it fit within the 1 minute and 55 second mark. The reason why we did not leave this version at 2 minutes was so that we had room for title cards. We ended up being able to edit down the opening sequence, which surprised me. It still is a little too fast paced for my liking, but the story still makes sense and is not too fast to the point of being incomprehensible.

    As stated before, we had to cut down and remove a few shots in order to make our opening sequence fit within the time limit. The first thing we removed was an over-the-shoulder shot of the note the mother had written in scene 8. We decided that by removing this shot, the contrast of my mothers writing from the first few scenes and the last few would not be as noticeable, since my mother had to rewrite the note she had written previously. We also removed the shot before the pan of me walking into the kitchen and turning on the lights.  The last thing done was remove the eyeline match to the fridge in scene 4. This was done because we already had an eyeline match, so we thought that it was not necessary to include this shot. We also cut down several other shots as well, which aided us in the journey of making our film one minute and fifty five seconds.