thelongjourneyofeditingthisdocumentary

This was the longest video I've ever created. Now, I love editing, don't get me wrong, but I was so annoyed at this video at the end because I ran into a lot of issues. I also underestimated the amountttt of time it takes to edit a longer video like this one. So much that the weekend leading up to the due date I edited 24/7 (not literally). 

The way I edited this, which idk if it was a good idea anymore) is that I would just dump all the footage I had gathered each day into Premiere Pro, and from there I would organize it into sections so I could start editing section by section, since I didn't have all the footage from the beginning at the time. This created a whole mess and made my timeline be over an hour long at one point. However, I stuck through it and started editing the montage at the beginning, and then the intro, and so on and so on, which made it feel like it was slowly coming together. 

Something that I noticed while editing was that the interviewees talked very slow at parts and hesitated a lot. It took me a long time to cut it down and even speed some interviews up, and I couldn't get them all fixed because the cuts were sounding choppy but I think I did a pretty decent job at mending the interviews.

About halfway through editing the intro, I was exhausted and I was realizing that it was taking way too long editing the interviews and the b-roll in at the same time since I still didn't know exactly what my interview flow would be. Therefore, I decided to completely forget about the b-roll (for now) and focus on just editing the interviews together to achieve a good flow of information. This allowed me to organize the editing process in a much more effective way, and then adding the b-roll in was much easier because I would just listen to the interviews and figure out what shots would look best in each part. 

Towards the end of my editing jounrey, I was being super nit-picky about everything to the point that I had to stop myself and just accept it how it was because if not, I would probably still be sitting down editing more and more. 

Overall though, I am truly proud of what we managed to create! We had a KHK party for the adults involved and the VP asked me if she could show the video as a surprise and she had me introduce it and had all the people watch it. I saw people get super emotional, with some even crying, and it made me really proud, not only of what I made, but also of how much impact we really make and how passionate everyone is.