Documentary Post-Production

The production process took up a lot of our time because not only were we filming a documentary, but we were also initiating the Recycle Beyond the Bag project. This meant that we had one day to edit... which was not the best idea, I know! but you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes. The day before we began to edit, Sofia and I were trying to figure out how we were going to edit the project. We tried using Adobe Premiere Pro and making a shared project but that didn't work out, and then we tried to make a shared project on CapCut, but that only gave us 1.0 GB of footage that we could upload which didn't work out either. We decided that what would be best is to divide the film into smaller parts so that we could edit specific sections of the piece and then put it together using Capcut.

Here is the note I made myself to remember which parts of the film I was editing (it was basically the first half): margarita what is the project why is it important with title name, Sofia how did you receive this project, what was the process like. get a team, talk to Boswell Zoom, publicize, girl making flyer, print flyers putting them up, get boxes, other boxes in the garage, build boxes montage, execute, going to teachers asking, b roll of built boxes I took.

I know that seemed like a whole lot of nothing but it worked for me. Initially, I was going to edit the beginning up until the end of the step-by-step explanation of the process. I ended up editing from the beginning up until the flyers were put up around the school because I was getting burned out and Sofia offered to take over. Above you can also see that originally we had a montage planned for the part with the box building because we had a ton of really funny and creative clips and we thought it would be a nice touch to the piece. During editing, we decided it was better to not include the montage because it did not fit with the tone of the film and would be too abrupt. Here are some clips we took that were going to be included in the montage. 

Before Sofia could start editing, she needed the completed first half of the film that I edited. There was a little problem though. When I tried to export the file from Capcut, it said that I had "Insufficient hard disk space." What does that even mean? 

After freaking out for a solid 5 minutes, I found a way to share the video through a shared cloud on Capcut and then she was able to access it on her phone and export it there. This did cause a delay in audio I think especially in the first half of the film which wasn't great, but since Sofia couldn't edit what I had already done, she couldn't really fix it when she realized.  

Overall, our editing process could've gone smoother if we had given ourselves more time. Maybe we could've had time to fix small things like abrupt cuts and minor delays. Besides the post-production process, our research, planning, and production went very smoothly, and I am happy with how our piece came out despite the obstacles we faced.