documentary process: post-production madness

 post-production for pursuing passion:

a mess. an absolute mess.

we were honestly so excited after all the footage we had gathered and we had around 5 days to edit which is honestly pretty good when we would normally be on a huge time crunch. here's the issue: i had to edit, hannah had the videos. why was i editing: i could do it quickly, i had premiere and i'm good at it. why did hannah have the videos: her camera is better quality (awk irony)

we tried we transfer. we tried one drive. we tried gmail. we tried icloud link. we tried shared albums. NOTHING WOULD WORK. oh and to top it off hannah was in chicago and it was my birthday week. 

so now it's about day 3 and we're stressing heavy because hannah really won't have time to edit on her trip and i don't have all of the footage. by this point i try to put everything i have and boom. my premier stops working. everything frozen, videos not loading, audio non existent. it was like evrything that could have possibly gone wrong did. it was honestly heartbreaking to throw something together last minute just to turn it in instead of really taking the time to do it with love like it was intended to be made. my storage ran out on my phone so the music that we originally had downloaded ende dup being replaced by some goofy promo music last second. most of roger's interview became lost footage and everything rapidly went downhill. it was rough on both parts since to me i felt like i was scrambling to finish the project and for hannah, she was fully in another state not really being able to provide much support other than spamming me ideas on how to help.

i really felt that the footage we had if organized correctly could be one of the best pieces that i've ever made but the execution was what really got us. it felt like all the thought we put into it, the miles of gas and fear of driving that i conquered were for nothing for a few days after the submission. i had never really been so embarrassed about a piece. to be honest, it wasn't that bad, but i knew its potential so i was my harshest critic.