its 1 am and im editing

 If I don't get an A for the dedication I have towards this project I swear- It's 1 in the morning and I'm here, editing, stressing, and wanting to scream. It's not going so smoothly anymore, I've run into a few problems:

-I didn't hold some shots on for long enough, one of them was too short and I wanted to do a slow zoom on it. I tried first to cut a quarter of a second shot of it and just paste it over and over so the shot is longer , but then I couldn't do the slow zoom, because that required me to do it on one single shot at a time and that would take me forever. So I ended up just doing the slow zoom on the shot I had but also slowing down the speed of it so it would last longer, but I'm still so scared that it looks too artificial or its too fast :( In the shot, I wanted it to be longer because it's a close up of Rhia's face as she gets very overwhelmed, and the slow zoom would work to give emphasis to her emotions, and I'm worried it won't be the same as I wanted it to :((

-On to problem number two, I don't have a tripod. Now you could be wondering, Julie why didn't you just ask your teacher for one? I did not think of that and I thought I wouldn't need one since all my other shots looked pretty good even handheld. I could've even just used something else to hold the phone but I unfortunately did not think of that 😔 and now I have extremely shaky shots. Now those are only the beginning shots, the still shots of the props. Technically I don't need those, but I really liked the idea of having them there and so did my teacher, they would be good for the credits of the film!!! Because they wouldn't fit anywhere else tbh, sooooo.... I resorted to doing what I did to the slow zoom shot, but... worse. Just look how many I had to put together 😭 and its still too fast!!! And I don't know what to do!!! I mean I could refilm, which would be the best choice, but I'd have to put the set back together which... wouldn't even take me that long I'm just lazy, but we'll see.

-And last but not least, problem number three... the length. I know, all this time I've been worried about the film being too short, and I got a bunch of extra shops in the hopes that it would be enough... but I fear its too much now. I've put everything together and guess what, without the beginning still shots it was already 2 minutes!!! And I don't know what to do because I remember my teacher saying we could go I think 10 seconds above or below the limit? But... gosh this is difficult, what do I do? Right now I'm putting everything together and seeing what I have. I only have 2 seconds of still shots done which is literally nothing so I'm stressed.