Editing

On the last day of college Before the *christmas holidays* our group came into college for a couple of hours to do some editing. we knew we wouldn't be able to finish it all at once after the holiday's because of all the january exams we had. we were able to complete half of the song, which was our aim. by the end of this day we felt a sense of success, we could now go home without the dreadful thought of having a baggage full of workload after we had returned.

On the monday back we were told that the deadline for the coursework is coming to an end. as you can imagine we began to panic. Due to recent weather disadvantages we had to drawback our scheduling for editing. we were unable to attend many days last week, it was difficult because the whole school closed early for most of last week, giving us only a few hours to edit. Travelling was another hindrance for students as well as teachers.

We accomplished a sufficient amount of editing last friday (8/1/10), we began during lesson time, and stayed back after school, and even managed to do little bit of filming thanks to Miss Polard's genius idea; which had an imperative impact to our music video. admittedly it transformed our video in a good way.

We were being drowned with negative comments about how our video didn't make much sense by a few people who viewed it, so we had to make a few adjustments. We Filmed some home video clips, as flashbacks for the music video- to show the momentous times the 'couple' had together. this will be edited in black and white to make it clear to our viewers that this is a flashback and also creates an effective effect
The snow therefore had a constructive advantage to our group- we were very lucky, to have white snow in our setting.'' and oh yeh, ThankYou Imran for letting us use your car, our group really appreciates it!'' the home video clip consists of the two 'couples' playing with each other in the snow.

when we got back to the classroom to upload these footage's , Masuma realised that we filmed the whole clip upside down, this was not fixable, even the 'Apple Mac' Genius could not solve this predicament. so we had to go out again and reshoot the whole thing.

Whilst Razia was editing in the classroom she was having numerous problems with the laptop. The application she was using kept shutting down unexpectedly. at one point the remembrance of saving the file slipped out of her mind and the application annoyingly shut down. all the hard effort she put into this work went out of the window.
as a group we decided to leave things as they were, as there wasn't a substantial amount to do, so we left it until monday(11/1/10). we wasn't able to edit on monday due to extension class's after school, so we left it for the next day. we began editing during lesson in the morning and came back at 2.00pm whilst we had study leave. we spent an hour and a half victoriously completing the whole music video with only the transitions left to add in.

we watched through the whole video extract with the rest of the class, and received positive criticism from the other groups. although some made some pessimistic comments... but that was only out of jealousy :)...

tomorrow we are going to come after school and fully complete the music video, and hopefully without any interference, hand in our master piece to MISS POLARD!!!!


TASLIMA BEGUM