21 - 23 April 2009

It's been quite a rush, and really for no purpose, but I am grateful all the same. Assuming the deadline was on 23 April, Shun and I hobbled together, after staying after school for long hours, a quite long version of the film. We have been told, however, that more time must be cut, since there isn't enough time, and 30 seconds was in fact a strict deadline.

Hence, it was a pity to rush for nothing, but on the other hand, we are now on time and not rushing anymore. The editing process was quite interesting. Again exemplified was the difficulty that Shun faced trying to cut together his film, in relation to my difficulty. In fact, the things that Shun was trying to tell in his story led his film to be over 50 seconds, whereas mine is only 42 seconds.

On Thursday, after we were given the go-ahead to cut the film down to 30 seconds else face various forms of cruel chastisement, we did some work on cutting, but we are not yet done. Some tactics we have used is speeding up clips to the maximum extent possible, and cutting out anything that, if cut, does not serve to derail the story's flow.

I think the biggest problem is actually making up one's mind and making the cut. However, it's good in a way to have a short film. Because we can only include so much material, the material we do include will probably be very good.