Editing

We went waaaaaay over with time.
With all that we had to fit, it was extremely hard to cram our entire introduction in under two minutes. Therefore, we had to speed up, cut, and cram multiple shots in order to just reach our time limit.
So far, Ricardo and I only have the video together. We have to record sound over it and create Foley. This Tuesday is a Super Testing Day at our school, and it is not mandatory for Juniors to attend, therefore I will meet up with Ricardo to wrap up editing before I go to work.
Ricardo is using Premier in order to edit, which  unfortunately lags and crashes on Ricardo's computer.
So far, we have created our title as well. We placed it after Trevor walks out of the room and the entire screen is only white doors.  We are still discussing design and other important components.
However, Ricardo and I do have the visual part of the movie edited, with scenes cut and fitted into 2 minutes. We will also work on making sure nothing in the movie appears rushed, which may be a problem. Although everything may fit, it is hard to sacrifice the time for fluidity. Furthermore, future editing will consist of sound, checking fluidity, color editing, and much more.
I am excited to finish the editing process because after that, our intro will be finished. We have worked so hard and put a lot of effort into this project, and it is satisfying to see our hard work pay off.

It wasn't all smooth sailing :(

Although I believe shooting went relatively well, there were many problems we faced on set.
First, as previously discussed, the cigarettes arrived much later than was expected. this delayed our shooting by a day, and the day that we did shoot, Ricardo and I were both in a time crunch, and had to hurry production. The ashtray we used was filled with real cigarettes, which stunk up the room. The lit fake cigarette also ignited the dead ones, and after every couple of minutes, I would have to leave the room to have  breath of fresh air.
Our actor was also available to shoot for only a limited time. Therefore, we weren't able to get shots of him and Ricardo's character together, which was disappointing. The only shot we got was of Ricardo's hand reaching towards the wound.
Many times, shots were ruined by the lighting equipment accidentally getting into the frame. These takes, however good they were, had to be scrapped. It was disappointing as well as annoying as we had to keep moving the light around to avoid shadows and to get usable shots.
The fake blood we used, since it was made of syrup, messed up the wound makeup and made it look terrible by the time we shot it on camera. It also made almost everything on set extremely sticky. It was great in terms of aesthetics and realism, but terrible for practicality.
Another problem was that Ricardo couldn't cry. We tried multiple times for him to cry, but the tears just wouldn't come. Ricardo used onions and held them up to his eyes, watch the intro to UP, and put eye drops on his eyes in order to make it seem like he was crying. In the end of the day, we had him angle his head lower so people wouldn't notice his lack of tears.
We worked through all of the problems we encountered and I am excited to see the final result.