Four

The seconds ticked by while we were floundering helplessly. We started our work at 8.30pm and we spent the following four hours to explore the newly introduced software on how to edit a video. We tried on each of its features such as audio editing, color correction, playback speed and so forth. What's more was that we had to squeeze everything to become a 30-second trailer and I guess that was the hardest part of the whole stuff. On top of that, searching for appropriate 'soundtrack' for the trailer was also a hard nut to crack. Above all, hanging out with IT is not a forte for all of us. That was why we were all in limbo at the very outset of our project.

However, all of us dug in as we wanted to complete it by tonight. Slowly and slowly, we became a dab hand at editing the video.(I am not trying to vaunt as it's just that I get a little bit exhilarated with our recently-acquired-skill) The greatest thing was to have learned how to cut scene. On the other hand, it took "kung fu" as well when it came to adjusting and matching the scenes with the music.

Apparently we started our work at 8.30pm. Nonetheless, it was only after 12.00am that we realized how a trailer is supposed to be after all. As we have never seen trailer of a documentary, the movie "Twilight" served as our inspiration as well as our reference point. Through it we decided that we should add in more words like "This Summer" and blah blah blah. Besides that, we came out with a lot of brilliant ideas which were easy to imagine(as quoted from Sarah) but almost impossible to get it done. We wanted to make it this way and that way and like this and like that but in the end there was only a small proportional of our splendid ideas were fulfilled.Well, what do you expect from a brunch of "almost IT retarded" teenagers who were exhausted and feeling superbly sleepy at the meanwhile?

Despite hitting the snag over and over again, I did enjoy myself. We laughed with a supremely great level of amplitude when we watched the 'video-in-process'(which we thought it is funny) and we sighed together when the outcome of the video did not reach our expectation. We redid part of it over and over again, searched for the music with intolerably slow connection and learned from our mistakes of course. (For example, you cannot transfer the "readily made scene" from this laptop to another laptop. You have to either do it in the same laptop or convert the "readily made scene" into video form first before you transfer it to another laptop.) Also, we learned not to be too demanding and practise the culture of 'letting go when it's the right time' when our attempt to delete the 'extra noise' was in vain.

We completed our trailer before three in the morning. We then went home and caught up our lost sleep in the early morning. That's a day.