Q: When you say you've edited parts of the video, are you editing the script first before moving on, or are you working on the video and saying "this portion of the script should be trimmed"?
A: i'm on 'phase 2' or the 'plan' stage, or 'pre-graphics', i am not sure what to call it. a lot of the graphic work actually gets done during this stage, it's basically like figuring out how the hell i am actually going to display on the screen what i just said in the script, and it actually inolves doing a lot more research, like nailing down exact geography specifics so i can show them on the map, or finding the images of people, etc etc. Like if i said "and then the clowns took over" ... a picture is worth a thousand words, so that may be fine for the script, but in order to show it on screen i have to know which clowns, i have to know what they were supposed to look like, i have to know exactly where they took over, so that often involves doing more research. or if i say 'then cheese wiz was invented' ... which cheese wiz was the first cheeze wiz? i can't just show modern cheese wiz and pass that off for the first kind. and a lot of times during this stage i may realize that a certain line in the script actually won't work, either because i realize it is innacurate, or maybe just doesn't seem good enough. so little revisions happen during this stage. also as i mentioned, the first draft was way longer than i wanted it to be, so when i do the re-writes i am always trying to say stuff quicker, and so far it is going great. every adjustment i have made has made it stronger and shorter at the same time. the shortening rate is averaging 18%, and i am at about the halfway point of the video