Well it has been a long time coming, but now I will tell you all about my involvement in the Band Documentary!

Now I have recently been short on updating my blogs due to my busy schedule and heavy involvement in a documentary that my class in making over the Marching Band's season. Now since I am both a band kid and an e-commer I volunteered to help out with this video. I wanted to take on a leadership role, yet I didn't want all of the responsibility. So I asked a friend of mine if we could be co-head-editors. Now we both agreed that this was a good choice for us and thus the editors were found. Another friend stepped up for directing and we gathered a few kids to film and we were off. Now we did miss a lot of the season because our project started so late, but we pulled it off. Now it was hard for me especially, I couldn't film festivals I had to perform and more than once we were very limited in the people who could make it out there to film. I would do what I could though and spent most of my time editing and organizing. Now the season went off pretty well, only a few minor problems that I don't feel the need to highlight in this post. Now came the not so fun part of interviews. Now don't get me wrong I don't mind doing interviews, we just kept having to redo them that I got sick of the repetition and the impasse that we were at. We can't write a story without interviews but we also don't have much time until the project is due and the interviews have to be good. So we put ourselves in a big catch 22 and ended up stuck for about a week until we could get the time to just film all of the interviews.

Now that finally finished up and the leadership team got to the hardest most tedious part of the whole video, editing. Now my first job was audio syncing from all of the interviews. I would take two camera angles, match the better audio up to the better shot and then export that out. That alone took me one entire day of editing and a few hours at home. Now it has been a stressful few months with this video as we have a few weeks until deadline and the other two editors have been busy and are in a different hour. Now that has made editing a problem but we began evening editing sessions as soon as we could and we have been working together to create an awesome video. Now I might talk more about this whole project when it is over but for now all I can say is that I'm glad that I took on this role. Working with my friends has been a blast and I don't regret taking this role, but trust me I look forward to more free time as soon as the video is over.