So I didn’t go into Media workshop this morning – nor did the rest of my group. As luck would have it, we’re all suffering varying levels of sickness. I was very sick yesterday and needed to day to recuperate and catch up on work that I’ve been unable to do pretty much the past 2 weeks. Thanks Body for that! Not!

Anyway, I’ve pretty much been assigned to do the editing for the Video Essay. It’s pretty stressful and kind of hard without everyone there to approve of everything. But at the same time, the work would get done so slowly if we all had to edit together at once. My team has been really helpful – providing me with all the found footage that I need to actually compile together into a 5-minute piece. They’ve even given me a little draft storyboard to help me get along without them.

I guess the struggle for me is trying to get past the first hurdle – I’ve put together about 30 seconds worth, but everything else is just a bunch of edited down footage with no place to go. I’m trying though, I really am.

I’m hoping that after I make some blog posts and therefore have caught up a bit in Media and Cinema, I’ll get some editing done later. It’s not that I don’t like editing – in fact, what we’re doing is really interesting to me personally. But it’s hard on my own, when I’ve been really sick, too. We’re all working well as a team though, I think, considering all the things pitting against us lately. Oh and ! I’ve also finished the my part of the annotated bibliography, so there’s that. Stay tuned for more!