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I'm heading off to school in a couple of hours to work on some video editing with my group. Our video is funny, but has a lot of brightness issues as the camera-person of our group screwed it up (each person has to have a role, and I was already the director and part-editor). A few of us went to re-shoot some scenes, and I ended up being the camera-person as the original girl couldn't make it, and I think I did a fairly good job. However, now there are consistency issues with the time of day. I managed to make one part (where it gets dark) work by superimposing a clock (that I made in Flash) on top of the video to suggest that time is passing, but the rest of the scenes will not look as good. The prof told us that the story is more important, and I, at least, have learned a lesson about shooting during certain times of the day. Now I just have to get the rest of the group moving with this project.
There is another editor among the group. He was also the main actor in the film. He did an OK job with the files, which I then further edited over this weekend. The issue I may have is that he wants to edit the entire thing, even though he's really slow (not to be mean, but it's the truth) and misses a lot of little things that will make the film look like shite once it's "done". Plus, as the second editor, I should be able to work on the files for at least one day without him feeling like he didn't do anything (even though he worked on them for a week or more). I'm going to have to re-assure him that I took the work that he did, and just built upon it, and that I did not start from scratch with the source files. There is some kind of self-esteem or control problem here. He thinks each of us should do a separate version, which I think is fine if you're going to collaborate, but shouldn't be done the day before the assignment is due, as we probably won't have time to mix and match ideas of how we edited. I also like having things a certain way, but I know what I am good at and what I need help with, so I won't voice my opinion about anything unless I know it will make our film better.