Editing

          I had the original intention of filming tonight, but some complications came up so instead I decided to start focusing on the editing. I have about 15 minutes of footage total for both realist sections, which is both a blessing and a curse. There's more than enough footage to create the scene exactly as I envisioned it, better actually, but there are too many pivotal moments for me to fit everything I wanted into only two minutes. The main problem I keep encountering is differences in lighting between shots; between a few different sequences, we had to adjust our source of lighting (a small bedside lamp that one of the actors would carry when the other was on screen, or that would be balanced behind the TV in the case that both actors were in the shot) which makes it a little difficult to properly put together with my minimal editing softwares. Currently I'm using iMovie, but luckily Nik Collections by Google has just been released for free! I'm going to play with it to see if and how I can edit video footage. Hopefully I won't have to take it frame by frame but if I feel like its necessary and I have enough time that's exactly what I'll do. For now though I'm simply trying to avoid those shots or find unintended alternative shots that fit the scene.

          To cut down the time of the sequence that I have, including both segments of the realist scenes, I attempted to just speed up the frames per second...but there was no happy medium between too fast and just fast enough to actually save time. Instead I decided, painfully, to cut a certain part of the scene. Although it isn't vital to the understanding or thematics of the scene, this one shot would have profoundly enhanced it. However, for now I'm just going to stick with the vital elements and hopefully once I have shot the formalist part I will have enough time to edit that one segment back in. So far I have managed to cut down the time to 1 minute and 25, not quite leaving enough time for the episode but I'm optimistic that I'll make it work!