The Best Day EVER

Mood: Jocular

Editing:
Ha ha.. so guess what happened to me today? As I was editing, iMovie thought it would be the best idea ever to unexpectedly quit and delete all of my media and movies. My entire edited project? *Poof* I immediately googled how to remedy this issue and went digging through the deepest folders of my computer that I didn't know existed to fix it. I found this lifesaving help thread that suggested duplicating the file I had previously (that showed as inactive when I clicked "file info"), and creating a new library on iMovie. The only issue was that my startup disk was out of space, so I couldn't duplicate the enormous file! I spent 2 hours transferring pictures, videos, and documents to Google Photos, Google Drive, and several USBs until I could finally copy the file, and the doc came back! However, none of my other projects did, but oh well. That's a later problem.

Anyhow, after that rough point, I got back to editing. Kass helped add some of the new shots we had taken a few days prior for B-roll, going through to find what was useable. She also found some good music called "North" that fit for the end of the doc, as the new music I found, "Always Hopeful," did not fit well through the entire second segment. Again, we used Youtube's Audio Library (my go-to) for this copyright free music. The music works really well together to switch tones with the narration, and I'm layering the end and beginning of each song on top of each other while fading them in/out, respectively, to allow for a smooth transition. 

Editing has been extremely hard for me with this project because the shots are abstract, and it's hard for me to figure out what matches different parts of the narrative. I have all of the useable shots (every useable piece extracted from larger clips with random shaking/blip trimmed out) in my editing doc, but ordering them to line up with the narration has been messy. I've had to split parts of the narration to link them to different visuals, which I learned the hard way, otherwise the narration would be disjointed and out of order every time I delete or move a shot. Anyhow, I've gotten the hang of it and go through it second by second; I've familiarized myself with all of the shots I have to work with, so now I put a shot or black background where I feel necessary, the background there to hold a space for a possible shot. As of now, the doc is projected to end at around 5 minutes and 4ish seconds.

Website:
As for our progress with the website, Kass has been doing tons of research and writing for it. She told me about this cool thing called the "Street Team" that Fueled By Ramen uses to promote their bands, and she suggested we create our own to promote our doc, as well as encourage Gen Zers to be themselves and get involved in their communities. We took turns editing each other's stuff for the website, but Kass worked more with the site and had a better grasp over how Weebly worked, so she did a lot of formatting for the images and text. By the way, we changed our link to wearegenzproject.weebly.com and changed this on our movie poster as well. We felt that it was better than the previous link because before it sounded like We Are Gen Z was our doc title. This way, it shows that we have a cause and our doc is just one part of it all.

See ya soon with our final products!!
Chey :)