Editing Blog: Fire Alarm Fierce

I have fallen behind schedule due to any negative circumstances. I was editing my film at school on my own personal laptop, I was editing in the morning before school started and lunchtime; however, then the fire alarm was triggered because apparently there was a fire from a teacher's lunch and so then I had to evacuate the building, closing my laptop and doing so erased the edited film I already had on my computer. I still had the film but now nothing was edited; in shock, I tried getting as much done with the leftover battery on my laptop and restarted. Although, I could not do much as my laptop battery died and I had to wait to get home to finish. This taught me a very important lesson to always save my work even when I'm almost finished. It was upsetting to lose all that progress and possibly even more upsetting to restart it all again. It was harsh to have to redo all of my setups, yet I was glad to learn this lesson for future personal projects I may do. This project is probably by far the hardest one that was assigned in the class, yet I do not regret taking it because as I mentioned it always teaches me a lesson. Now the video is mainly edited; yet, I still have quite a few edits to do. I am constantly looking for ways to communicate my ideas; personally, I believe a lot of producers do this. Mainly because it doesn't hurt looking at other people's perspectives; as competitive as it sounds directors drive off of each other's ideas.