Editing Day 5/Burn to DVD Day 1

Well, today was supposed to be mainly a burn to DVD day, but since we all thought that would just take a few minutes, I was able to make a few of the changes that I had really wanted to make on Friday. Firstly, thanks to a suggestion made by Conrad, I was able to partially fix the really ugly jump cut towards the beginning of the film. I say partially, because it's still not exactly what I would have wanted, but it's waaaayyy better than I had left it. Secondly, I put in the transition that I had thought of on Friday (although I must give Evan credit for this as well, as I had forgotten that I had been meaning to do this until Evan suggested it) to make a smooth transition, showing an elapse of time between the phone conversation and the pool/billiards scene. There are still a few shots that are kind of awkward because of their silence, but my group seems to like them, as their awkwardness reflects the tone of the film. We also figured out how to add title credit slides. The credit slide looks good, but we had had some issues with the speed of the title slide. The title is spelled out letter by letter like a typewriter would, but they appear excessively slow. We still are not able to figure out the correct way to speed this up, but, thanks to Conrad, we did do a little bit in a roundabout way. It's not perfect, but we didn't have more time to make it perfect.

So then to what we thought would be the easy part...the burning of the DVD. Everything seemed to be working - we picked out the title screen and everything once we exported the film to iDVD, but we agreed to have Conrad come in during 7th to actually burn it, as we were out of time for the period. Long story short, apparently that didn't work, and when I came in after school, it didn't work either. So, I'll have to drag myself out of bed bright and early tomorrow morning and get my butt in 1st period IB film and hope that somebody will point out the one little thing that we had overlooked for the past hour and a half.