Yes, I'm still editing

 

I got back on Friday, but of course I didn't edit. Why would I spend my time being productive? I'd rather sleep until I have to go to work then come back and sleep some more. Obviously I wasn't done with the winter break state of living. It wasn't until today that I opened up my laptop for editing. Since my English teacher was absent, I took advantage of that and slept. I decided I would wake up and edit before I forced myself asleep again. When I woke up around 3, I got on my computer and looked at what I had. It was over 7 minutes of footage from one folder. That wasn't going to work. I got rid of my second folder of work to work on my first folder. Now that I didn't have major distractions like last week, I thought it would be easy.

Good thing my brain finds the simplest things to get distracted by! I thought I was going to have to force myself to start staring at the back of my phone for two hours and completely forget what I was doing! If you cannot tell, that was obviously not my intention, but it ALWAYS happens. I finally pulled myself together and edited the entire folder. Not only did I get less than half the footage down to under five minute, I also got it in the right place, generally.

I still have two folders to fit into this small amount of space. I also still have to edit cuts and words and everything. In fact, I still have to check up on the progress my friend is making with the song they said they would make for me! 

Good thing I saved it all until the very last few days before the due date! I've always thought I work best under pressure. For someone who is used to being in school and having constant reminders, it was true! Now that my bed is a few inches away and I can join class on my phone, it's not as true. 

At least I have one scene done and put together. Unfortunately, it's not supposed to be a very big scene. It takes up close to two minutes of the 5 minute movie. That's a fourth of the entire movie! That only gives me about 2-ish minutes to fit in the middle of it since the beginning and end is about a minute combined. Well, I hope it's a minute, since my beginning is in another folder. 

Happy New Years Eve!

 When I woke up, I didn't have time to check my phone. I promised my aunt I would help her clean and I woke up so late I could only have breakfast then go help her. After I helped her for a few hours, I was told I was going to go visit family. 

Unfortunately, the family I was visiting didn't have wifi and the area that they lived in, there was pretty much no service. I figured I would be able to edit when I got back and write my blog then. When I got back, I had to help prep for the new year party. I completely forgot about editing and school. 

After we prepped for the party, we started it. There wasn't anyone really here. I started with games at my cousin's house then went to my aunt's house next door. They had a first next door and I was going to cry if I didn't get to roast a few marshmallows. 

After that I went back to my cousin's house and I watched them play pool. School never crossed my mind. 

I counted down the seconds and it was the new year! I wasn't until I went inside to finish my plate of food that I remembered I had school. 

Below you will see a facebook approved photo that my aunt took of me and my brother at the bonfire. 

Yes, they are burnt marshmallows. It's the only way to eat them. 

Card games and sleep

 Today I didn't edit. I know, I know. I woke up with an insane headache and didn't want to look at my screen. Even with my glasses it hurt to look at my computer screen. I'm starting to think that I might have the flu, but I can't tell cause I can't go to the Drs. When I woke up I spent hours just lying on the couch listening to a podcast. Since I couldn't open my eyes without them hurting, I had to listen to a podcast. I need to have one of my senses occupied at all times. I needed to catch up on Rotten Mango anyway. Stephanie had three episodes I forgot to listen to cause I've been busy. 

After I could get up, around 1, I got off of the couch and found that mum had my laptop for school work! I started doing stuff so I wouldn't be so bored, since I couldn't look at my phone. It took me until 4 for actually be able to look at my phone, but by that time I was so tired I ended up taking a nap. When I woke up, dinner was being made. I went to go find my cousin and mum. They were outside about to play cards. I love playing cards, so I joined them. Then my brother ended up joining after we were done, so we played another game. After that we ate dinner.

After dinner I considered editing. I walked over to the computer and the prunes hit me! Earlier, while I was napping, my mum and cousin went to the store. I woke up for a minute and called and asked them to get prunes because my stomach has been messing up. So instead of editing like I wanted to, I was forced into the bathroom until it was too late to edit and write a blog in the same night. 

In the pictures below you will see me wearing a mask while I played cards. This was me taking extra precautions to keep them safe. This was also to make my cousin mad since she was very anti-mask. Yes, I am aware I have a rats nest on top of my head. I am washing my hair tomorrow. 

Wave of Sickness

 

This was me about 5 hours after I woke up. When I first woke up my mum was using my computer for her homework. That took about 2 hours. After she was done, everyone wanted to play cards, I wasn't going to pass up the chance to play cards. That took about two hours. I was feeling fine during all of this. Minus getting hungry and just keep playing. I ended up eating chips and dip. I figured I would due editing later in the day.  I mean, I had all day, right? Wrong. After cards, it was about 3 p.m. 

My aunt asked me to help her clean up the kids' rooms today. I went over there to make sure they were up from their naps and they were! I was thinking about the scenes that I had, making sure I had them all and everything just needed to be put together.

As far as I was aware, I had everything. I just needed to put it together. 

I cleaned up the boys bedroom just fine. It was when I got to the girls bedroom that I started losing energy. At first I thought it was just because I was thirsty. As I kept cleaning I kept losing more and more energy. My body was filled with waves of anxiety and stress. I thought I ate something bad and I just needed to use the bathroom. I went back to my cousin's house across the street to use the bathroom and it was on my way over there that I got extremely light headed and felt really sick. 

I was in a lot of pain, inside and needed to lay down. But this time it was 3:30, and I passed out on the couch and didn't wake up until after everyone ate dinner. It was about 7:30 when I woke up with a pounding headache. I took some aleve and tried to eat and drink something. I was also very warm. I thought I was sick. Maybe I still am, but after that nap and water and aleve, I'm starting to keep better. Unfortunately it's hard enough trying to write this blog, there's no way I'll be able to edit tonight. 

Waffles and broken pipes

 

I know I'm wearing the same shirt! Don't come for me. It was washed and it's comfortable! I started the day with a glance at my computer. I didn't get up until 10 a.m, which meant the whole house was already awake. I turned on my computer and instead of editing right away, I had to open everything and make sure it was all working so it wouldn't just turn off with nothing being saved. As I stared at my scenes at open shot, my dad called! Saved by the bell, as they say. I picked up and let my screen go to sleep. After the call, I was going to try to edit but I wasn't motivated at all. I ended up making waffles and biscuits for everyone. (11)

After waffles, I was going to eat at my computer but my mum said she wanted to use it for her homework. Instead of being nagged about it for hours, I decided to get off and let her have it. The thing is, she didn't even get on it! She started cleaning instead! My cousin ended up putting on a movie that I've been wanting to see so we watched that while my laptop sat, empty. After that movie we ended up watching another one. This time I ended up falling asleep. I justified watching these movies by analyzing the directors work throughout. 

When I woke up, I realised my mum left! There was no way she was going to do her work now. I decided to get online and start editing. I got as far as looking through what I already had before we found out the sink pipe broke! I had to help with that, likely it didn't take long.

After that, I had to go to the store to get stuff for dinner. After we got back I went through the entire first folder that was down and got the second folder of clips onto Oneshot, while my cousin made dinner. After that I called it a day. My nap didn't give me enough energy for more than a few hours.

We're finally editing!

 

It took a hot minute, but we're finally here. I saw 'we' like it's not just me working on this project. I recently travelled to see family for the holidays and brought my computer because I knew I was going to be here for my entire winter break. I couldn't edit on the 23rd because that's the day we left and I was too tired and it was too late to edit after we got here. I couldn't edit on the 24th because I was helping set up everything for Christmas like cooking, cleaning, wrapping, and last minute trips to stores. That took up my entire day. I didn't edit on Christmas, yesterday, because I was eating and spending time with family and didn't get around to it. I could have edited at night but after cleaning up, and eating all that food, I was too full and too tired to even think about opening my laptop. 

The next morning, at around 10 a.m I finally woke up. I pulled my laptop out and wanted to get to work. I got as far as putting in the SD card before I remembered I said I would make my scones for brunch. I had to stop what I was doing and make those. Luckily it only took about an hour and a half. I figured I would eat one as I edited. It took me a minute to figure out how to use the editing software again since I haven't used it in about a year. I first tried to download the clips into the software but it would only let me do it one at a time. I didn't have the time for that since I knew I was going to be needed for something else. I split the screen in half and dragged and dropped. It worked!

As soon as I finished that part, my cousin let us know that we were going to the store for after Christmas shopping to see if anything good was on the 'after-Christmas sale'. We found some good gifts for family that we didn't see yesterday. Why do they need to know when their presents were bought? 

After we got back from that, I wrapped up the gifts we got and by that time it was already 3 in the afternoon. We ate a late lunch and I went to see what my aunt was doing across the street. We talked for a little bit before I went to go hang out with my other aunt next door. They all live right next to each other so it makes it easier to visit for the holidays. By the time I was doing checking up on everyone, it was like 5 p.m and that's when I officially started editing. 

I only got through one folder of clips, so I'll have to work on the other two tomorrow. I basically just cut down the times on the really long ones and got rid of the repeated ones. There isn't too much work to do for edits when we first start. Just making sure everything is in order. That's why I like editing. 

Last Couple of days before I left

 So I didn't edit last weekend. I wanted to but I was so tired from midterm week that I slept almost the entire weekend. The time that I was awake I didn't worry about editing because other things were on my mind. I was stressed about the holidays coming up and having to visit family because I didn't have a choice. I was stressed about school starting again. I was stressed about getting chores done in the time that I had before I went to my friend's again the following week. Since I needed to finish filming, and we were leaving now Wednesday, I wanted to make sure my room wasn't a mess before I left for two weeks. This didn't count reshoots, unfortunately since I didn't do any editing. 

When Sunday night came, I made sure to pack up everything so it would just be a grab and go in the morning. Then I made sure to figure out who would be able to watch my brother while both of his parents were at work. I sorted it out that night and relaxed a bit. I also made sure to deposit my check after work so I would have money in my account when we went out to film and get lunch after.

The next morning I asked my mum if she was going to take me or if I was going to take a Lyft. She said she would take me. I packed my stuff into the car and before I got it, she got into the passenger seat. She was going to let me drive! After I got there, I realised I forgot my camera charger! I texted my mum and asked if she could bring it for me but she said she was already late and that she couldn’t do that. 

I used the few hours of charge that the battery still had and shot my scenes. I ended up having to film when the sun was setting because Ben’s bus was delayed and his bike broke. He didn’t get to Pixie’s until 3 and we didn’t film until 4 because we were slacking off. The ending scene was very rushed and only shot a couple of times because the sun was setting and I didn’t want to risk messing the lighting up too much. 

It wasn’t until Wednesday that I realised I forgot scenes! I’ll have to get those rushed when I get back because I won’t be getting back until late. Monday night I was able to get a ride back to my house to get my charger, so that wasn’t a problem for Tuesday.

I know we don't have any masks on, don't come for me, we all got our fast results that we were all cleared from COVID the night before and made sure not to see anyone before we filmed. When I go back for reshoots, we will have our masks on, unless it's not needed for the scene.