Although my partner and I had done almost all of our shots in less than three takes, the editing process wasn't any quicker than the last project. Our first step was to go through every take and find which ones we liked the best. We looked at lighting, movements of the camera, and even the facial expressions of the actors. On occasions, we would have two takes that we both thought were equally good and we would flip a coin or something else along those parameters to decide which take to use. After we found each take we wanted we needed to trim each takes to exactly when it should start and end. My partner and I split this 50/50. She trimmed the first half of the scenes while I trimmed the second half. For my shots I had them start right as the actor enters the frame. And they would end immediately after the actor's movements stopped. For the most part, this step was easy. But we ran into some problems along the way with this that I'll get back to in a second. We then decided to put the trimmed shots in order in iMovie to see what a cohesive rough draft of the video would look like. We had to reference the storyboard a lot here to see what went in what order. But eventually, we figured it out. Here's where the problem came. We were way over the 1:15 time we were aiming for. So we had two choices from here. We either trimmed each shot even more or we removed shots and scenes we didn't think were necessary. Eventually, we did a combination of both trimming and deleting. And by the end of this, we got down to that 75-second spot we needed to be at.
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