Editing Begins

Once we came back, the first thing we wanted to do was agree and finalize our new monologue for Maddie. However, once we sat down and tried to figure this out, we realized it would be hard to come to any conclusion of what the voice-over will sound like without first seeing how the clips will flow. Therefore, we uploaded all the videos to my computer, I downloaded Adobe Premiere, and we got to work. Putting these clips in the timeline was easy, the things we had to worry about were cutting the right amount of seconds at the Strat of each clip and at the end, to make sure these flow nicely and give the sense that the two sisters never stopped moving from clip to clip. This just took a few minutes, we got as far as when Maddie falls and this is when we started having some problems with the editing.

First, we realized that we got a shot of the two sisters (from the back) going up the hill, but it does not really clearly show Sarah going up first, and we only got a shot of Maddie going up from up the hill, with no sight of Sarah. We began to worry if this mistake could truly be fixed with editing because going to film it again would not really work due to the fact this was outdoors, and the climate/weather will for sure look different in the new clip we would film. However, we started mixing some clips and realized if we cut to Maddie halfway up the hill, this makes it seem more like Sarah was right in front of her the whole time. After we edited these few shots, my computer had an issue and all of the media went offline. We talked to our teacher and figured out that moving our clips from folder to folder made Adobe lose track of where they are and removed them off our timeline. We tried re-locating them but had no luck. We started a new project and had to put all of these cropped shots in the timeline once again, however, we learned to not do this next time.