Production: editing

 I always forget how tedious and long editing is. Even with a plan on how we wanted the end project to look like it took forever to edit. I tried to use adobe premier needlessly I failed miserably that I turned to Capcut (the better app, well easier app). 

The first thing was to find all the archive footage of open mics, competitions, and other time poetry was being presented. It was a long search in photo apps and a lot of begging for people to send videos but finally we had a lot of footage to work with then we had to find where to place everything even with 3 people working to find how to piece everything together it took so looong. 

Then I created the montage and trying find a way to have all the pieces of poetry flow as one took multiple tries and usually never sounded right because they had different sounds and different tones to what they were presenting and when i asked for help one of partner Nicole told me to find the most impactful which is usually at the beginning and the end so I did exactly that and it started to sound ten times better. And then we came up with the idea of making it look like a old footage so we made it look like a square. For the other archived footage we used a background because multiple of the video were filmed vertical rather than horizontal so we had to find a way for it all to fit and not look outofplaced. 

The final product: