Editing Experience on Master Shot Project

At first, editing was a little difficult because we had a lot of footage, a lot of takes and bloopers, and we actually forgot to record sound on the whole first half of the shoot. Mike and Alex worked diligently to get the sound all synced up though and did a great job. Editing became easier and easier as we just sat down and concentrated on what shots we needed, what take looked best, and where we needed to add sounds for clarification. On the whole, I didn't personally do any editing but I helped to choose what looked best when we had multiple takes. We had two endings to our short as well: in the alternative version, the "serial killer" looks to the camera right before putting on her mask and makes sure the person behind the camera is ready to film...in the end, however, it didn't look good at all. So we decided on the ending that is seen in our final cut. It's funny how good ideas seem at 4 in the morning!  I am so thankful though that we took the time to do as many takes as we did so that we would have plenty to chose from when things went wrong.