Post-Production Editing Postponed for Present-Production Editing

After about three and a half hours of filming, me and my crew wrapped up filming, thinking we had gotten everything we needed. 

On the next day we had our Media Studies class, our editor looked through our editor’s log, and created a rough cut from our footage. 

We only had 57 seconds of decent footage. 

Two minutes exactly is the requirement for this project, and we barely had half of that. We went in without a fully developed story as well, hoping longer takes would make up for it.

We then spent the next few days brainstorming, which mainly happened after school hours, and coming up with not that many ideas. 

Our cinematographer contacted some of their writer friends, who helped come up with some ideas.

While some ideas focused more on the representation of queer relationships in media, others were a little more creative.

One friend suggested a stalker plot. One of our characters would have been stalking the other, which would then develop throughout the film.

It was a better idea than what any of us came up with, but it seemed so far off from what we originally wanted. It felt wrong to use the storyline.

We spent the next few hours trying to think of something, with no luck. 

The next day was Saturday, our second attempt at production. The brainstorming would have to wait until then.