CCR Editing

 

        Today was the day I started and finished the editing of my Creative Critical Reflection for the film opening, and heres how it went. 

    Using the script I had made the day prior, I was easily able to film my footage. I kept a smile on pretty much the entire time but not a forced one so that the info I was spouting was engaging and not boring at any rate, and I even tried to incorporate a few jokes to give the CCR a youtube video essay type feel. One thing I had fun with while shooting footage was my intro. Even though its literally the least important part of the CCR, I was sold on finishing my open with a no-look backwards shot at my plastic basketball hoop behind me.  While I was filming the actual meat of the presentation I had a general idea for what I was going to do in the intro, but at one point between takes I was just staring at myself in the webcam and I decided to try shooting it backward and...I made it. Had I not done that, I would not have included that element in my CCR.

    As you will see, however, I end up not making the shot at all in the final cut, but it wasn't out of laziness or anything, i literally could not make the shot again. In the image above you can see all the takes I have of the project, of the roughly 40 videos I took I would say at least 15 of them were takes of the basketball shot. It was a total bummer that I could not make that shot again, because it would have made the intro cooler, but missing is also another way to play for laughs, so either way it went it added to the overall vibe of the project. 

    When it came time to actually edit the entire thing, it took numerous hours, given that it was nearly nine minutes long. My editing process involved a lot of spur of the moment ideas as to what I should play over my voice-over every now and again, like visuals and screen recordings of my computer screen. Where I thought the opening was kind of fun to edit, I have to be honest-this one was way too long to edit in one day and it came at the expense of my sanity. I did not enjoy editing the CCR by any means. It has to be said, though, that it is wholly my fault for restricting myself to one day of editing, so my pain is my own doing. Next time I will surely plan more accordingly.