Editing of Change

So by a miracle I was finally able to incorporate Taliek's poem into the film. As I edited the clip I was thinking over and over again if it was going to work or not. I was looking at some other footage that we shot in the past and I came across a B-roll clip of pictures in Taliek's house in Brooklyn of his little brother and sisters. I was thinking and I had a brilliant idea of playing both clips at the same time.

In the clips of Taliek reading his poem while doing his hand movements, I will cut out some of his audio and put the B-roll clip and have the film move more smoothly. When editing I made a pretty risky move by adding text to the poem and the B-roll, but it turned out to be an excellent decision and it was well in sync.

For the next step in this project I will just try to make the film run smoothly and make sure that the film is doing a good job of telling his story about him getting out of the gang. The class is having a film viewing of all the final projects so I have to have it ready by next week. I'm very nervous.