Editing is not my favourite thing. I don’t hate it, I just don’t actively pursue it.

Editing each format of comedy was different. The mockumentary consisted of a lot of short clips, but not many that provided an opportunity for jump cuts. We didn’t really shoot multiple takes for coverage, which was stupid, but made our lives easier at the time. This made it harder to edit, especially when some of our funniest moments were ruined by breaking that could have been covered if we’d bothered to shoot more takes.

Tahni made the first rough-cut of the mockumentary. I then went in and made a shorter, punchier cut. While my cut was more polished, Tahni’s was funnier, so that is the one we’ve been screening and showing around. I found that the mockumentary was a pretty simple edit, it took me about an hour to finish my cut.

The stoner circle was also relatively simple to edit, but it was different. Most of the footage was in long, continuous takes, which could not really be edited together, given the nature of the filming (outlined here). Even though we couldn’t really piece together this scene, we made sure when we were filming to have everything as perfect as possible. This made editing easy; each segment was broken up with our green screen shots, and the end result is cohesive and quick.

The multi-cam was near impossible to edit. Because we used three cameras, and didn’t start and stop the recordings simultaneously, we had to watch through ridiculous amounts of footage to match up the clips in a sequence. We found that we had used too similar angles when we shot, so there is not much difference from camera to camera. The end result looks like a school concert that has been filmed by two parents sitting in the same row but at opposite ends, and edited together by the same parents who think they know how to use a computer but still go to toolbar>file>cut>paste.