Week 11 (Thursday the 18th of May)

Editing in the studios is quite tedious, not the editing itself that’s really easy- but the long hours in an environment that doesn’t allow you to eat, plus sitting down consistently. Honestly I wish I was editing from home and hopefully our group can make a compromise so that we may be able to do this. Booking the studios is another reason why I want to work from home- it’s hard to book them in for long periods of time, especially near the end of term. I don’t want our film to be below standard just because we didn’t have enough time in the editing suites.

I have my own monitor and a second laptop at home, I’m a fast editor with quick turn-arounds and I really enjoy editing late at night, I see it as sort of a hobby even- to wind myself down and relax. I’ve edited a lot at university before, I daily produced a show for RMITV called Offbeat in 2016 which involved a lot of editing and exporting then handing in the content to Channel 31, so I have edited at RMIT and I know the computer systems quite well.

Despite this I still think editing from my own home environment on an external hard-drive makes more sense, as our group can just pass the hard-drive around and everyone can edit at their own pace. This is one of the hardest things about editing in a group; it’s that you all really need to be available at similar times so that you can go over how you’re going to edit the piece. I find this to be a little frustrating.

I know green screening and keying the film so that it looks elegant will take time and I have to say i’m not that excited for it as I’ve been quite unwell and hope I don’t have to spend long hours at university.
Pray that I can edit from home as I’ll be doing the majority of that edit. #pray4tash

Until next time.