Process: Editing Thus Far

Although I neglected to write a process blog last week, it would have contained very similar content to this one. We spent a lot of last week simply working on the best way to get our raw footage on and off the lab computers in an efficient manner. We also had brainstormed a good introduction to the documentary. This week we have begun actually editing. We made an introduction one day that was pretty awesome, essentially going from outside of the building where the club was playing to the actual room that they were in. We also included a nice bit of gameplay footage overlayed with the title of the documentary. On Tuesday in conferences we continued to brainstorm ideas for the documentary. I feel that we got a lot of good ideas in and that the discussion went really well. On Wednesday we worked on getting the rest of the two minutes we needed by Friday done, and I feel that our two minute "first draft" of our documentary is really good and that the feedback we receive from other people viewing it will be helpful to us. There are a couple clips that we have in this draft that we will certainly not be including in the final draft, mostly because they are contradictory to the points we are going to prove in the final documentary, though they are an amusing addition to this draft. The two minutes that we have together right now is pretty good as far as a first attempt. It might be a bit difficult for the viewer to really understand what the overall point is, it is a good baseline for the final project that we will be submitting next week, and we do have a lot of good clips left that we have not yet included in the documentary. I feel that we have accomplished more than we even needed to this week. Although our first iteration of the documentary is not as high quality as possible, we already have the final product mostly planned, and the way that we have the raw footage stored, it should be easy and fast to get everything done, we should have a fair amount of free time for extra revision or feedback. We may at some point put the video up as a private video and allow the club to view it and give us their feedback on it. This would be helpful for both parties for a lot of reasons listed in my reflective post from this week.