Editing (The real thing this time)

We decided the day before after a lengthy group meeting where we aired out our grievances that we would meet up at Usman's house to do our final edit to present to our media teacher on Monday. So the day rolled around and I got a call telling me the time had changed to one o'clock but then several minutes later I got a text saying the time had changed back to twelve o'clock I was like make up your mind people!! Anyway I left the house and got Usman's house at ten past twelve and as I arrived Ali was there already, so I grabbed a chair and sat down to do some editing. We all had problems with the other edited versions of our film as before we gave Ali a list of improvements and he went away to do them. This wasn't fair to Ali as he ended up doing all the work and when we didn't like the changes he took it personally which was understandable. The first thing we did was find all the clips as Usman's USB had some shots missing so we had to do a lot of importing from Ali's USB this didn't take long as Ali thank God had his USB with him. Anyway, after all the shots were there then we had to decide what shots to put into the timeline; there was a dispute between Shadei and Ali over the fact that in one shot Shadei had jeans on and in another she had a dress on. I personally didn't really see it as a problem but I understood where she was coming from as there was some continuity problems. Then we decided to compromise and put the shots of Shadei in a dress, once that had been sorted we continued with putting the shots we wanted into order and another problem came up we had a dispute about what shots to include and the end as we had shots of the car and shots of Shadei running away from men in masks. The dispute was what shots to use as there was two shots of Shadei being chased;one where she was being chased by a man in a mask with a stick and one of her being chased by two men. My case was that the shots of Shadei running away from the 2 men was more effective because she was screaming,it looked like something out of 28 weeks Later. In the end we went with the shot of Shadei being chased by a man with a stick as we felt that the fact that Usman (guy with the stick) was so close it made it scarier. Next up was the title sequences, after much debating we came up with a name which had a relation to our film, we called 9 Seconds and I won't tell you why because that would ruin it but it will be pretty obvious when you see the film. The final thing to do was to slot our names in but here we ran into a problem, Ali put his name as director but Shadei said that wasn't fair, I didn't even want my name in as I hadn't done any acting but we resolved all arguments and just left Ali as director with everyone names following on. Then disaster struck, the computer crashed, my idea was to turn it off and let the program recover it for us but nobody listened to me, so we spent an hour trying to recover our file until eventually we turned it off and guess what I WAS RIGHT!! It cam back and we did the best thing we had done all day we saved it!!!