Editing During a Pandemic

   Hello. So currently the world is facing a terrible pandemic. A majority of the world is being affected by a highly contagious virus. To protect everyone from getting infected, my school has closed and the students are at home right now, we are also in spring break as well. This virus has made it very difficult to edit our movie as a group. We don’t want to risk getting sick or spreading germs at the moment, so that prevented us from getting together and editing or doing any filming for our reshoots. We knew that we couldn’t just sit around and do nothing so we tried to do some editing over online chat. Ava and Morgan were the ones who actually did the editing since they had all of the footage. To do group video chat we used the video call feature on social media app Snapchat because we all already had it and knew how to use it. The main things that we wanted to get done with this call were the titles and the transitions. We decided to do the sound editing another time because it would be hard for us to do it over video chat.
   Once we were in the chat, we edited the time a little so that it was just a little under the maximum time of two minutes. We did this so that we could add transitions into the movie that may have made the movie longer. We lowered the time by cutting out very minuscule parts of the movie that ultimately served no purpose. The next thing we did was add the transitions. We didn’t need to add to many creative transitions because a majority of the scene switches were just quick cuts back and forth. We added a fade transition in the early title scenes because it was on a black screen and it would have been boring if it cut from black to action so we added the transition from the black screen to the establishing shot. The next thing we worked on were the titles. We wanted to make sure they were in the correct order and we also had a couple of new actors that we needed to add into the opening that weren’t there originally. We also had to choose a different font because the one we originally wanted wasn’t available. This font isn’t my favorite but it matches the overall tone of the movie well. While editing we also realized that we should change the title of our movie because it doesn’t really match the plot well anymore. The last thing we spoke about was our plans for reshoots. We need to reshoot a couple of scenes for our film and since we are in spring break until further notice, we think that this is a great time to start filming reshoots for the project, we just need to find a good time to do it and to stay clean while doing it so we don’t get sick.