struggleing to edit vid

I and my co-worker are struggling to edit our footage at the moment due to there being such a large amount of footage to cut down into the time period that we have. At the moment we have in exes of 120 minutes of raw footage that we need to cut down into a video clip of around 2 minutes.

My co-worker and I are suggesting getting rid of one of our scenes that would not benefit our video as much as one of our other better ones that could get us the higher grade. Also we have managed to now edit fully two of our scenes we are using in our film. These two scenes are of the nerds that are in the library and the scene of the emos in the grass area by the library.

The problems with the video in this section with the emos are that we had a lot of raw footage for that scene so we had to edit it so it would only last about 10 seconds. So what we have done is to do multiple shots of the emos at different angles so that you get to see all of them. We have tried to use continuity editing in this clip so that it is not obvious that we have matched these different shots together.

For the video clip of the nerds we had difficulty when we were putting the whole thing together due to that fact that when the steady cam stops moving it then waits for about a second and then moves through the door. Also when you enter the library it takes about seven seconds to get to the area where the nerds are this takes valuable time off of our timetable. So what we did was speed the clip up like we did for the transition parts of our video until we reach the nerds. This means that we can now use these valuable seven seconds elsewhere in our video.