Documentary Status

What is the status of your documentary?  What is each of your team members doing to support it?  What exactly have you been doing?  What are some challenges you've been having?  How can you overcome them?

    My documentary is fully complete; I finished the rough cut on the due date and then made some finishing touches to improve the quality afterwards. We got all of our shooting done in one week, getting a very good amount of b-roll and responses from our interviewees. Throughout the process, each team member did a very good amount of work. Nicole managed the communication with the teacher and class and also acted as a secondary camera operator, Amaya directed us and managed all the sound (getting very good quality as well), and I was the primary camera operator and DoP. During the week of editing, I did my best to work around the time constraints that I had due to AP testing by logging all the footage right after importing it and managing to complete the project to some degree on time. Some challenges that I had was in regards to the footage and premiere pro. I had merged the audio and video for the interviews so that they would be in sync and I would be able to more easily place in into the timeline without it going out of sync. However, every time I tried to drag the video (the audio alone could be dragged in but not whenever I tried with the video), premiere pro would freeze and remain unresponsive until I force quit the program. This issue was the same on a different computer so I had to figure out a way to include the interview video without running into that issue. I overcame this issue by testing if the freezing would occur with the original, un-merged, video and it didn't. Thus I had to instead sync the footage by using the merged clip to add markers then going to the separate video and audio clips and set the in points to those markers that I made.