The Beginning of the End!

Today was our first day of official edit days. In the morning we visited Mr. Kwait along with Ms. Maurer coming to visit. We presented what we had completed (footage, voice-overs, etc.) and what our plan is for the six days of project. Mr. Kwait explained to her what he had told us. This included advice and what he has worked on. After leaving we sat down and began the grueling task of sifting through EVERYTHING and putting our first couple scenes together. Our goal is to keep this film under twenty minutes, after about half-a-days work we have just over two done. Keep in mind that this is just the rough, first edit and this one may come up to be around forty minutes. Just in these first couple minutes we have spotted multiple areas of “unnecessary material” that can be removed if we need to cut down. Even just in these first couple minutes my perfectionist attitude came full force and annoyed joey quite a bit. We would start playing it and we would restart it ten times because I’d have to mix I minor detail that an audience would not even notice. All in all this was a great first day; it sets a tone that I’d like to keep for the rest of our project. If we are successful with that then this will be a great film that both Joe and I can stand by proudly.