Progress?

 Hey Blog, I don't know why I do this to myself. choosing one of the most physically challenging days on my body to get more progress done, cross country meet days. Sadly it was raining today so the shots I got from today are all blurry. However, the shots I got from my last meet just weren't the most aesthetically pleasing in my opinion. After using Capcut today I was finally able to find out how to successfully add songs and other types of sounds in my commercial. I thought TikTok would have been a great source to use for creative ideas but all it's brought so far is confusion. I found another idea that I thought would be great. Turns out I can't add any type of media to it other than text so another fail for today. When am I going to start seeing progress? I'm getting really discouraged and wishing I could switch classes at this point. Also for everyone who told me this was an easy class thanks for lying to me now I'm stressing. Thank God I saved my last draft. What I think I'm going to do now is mix both ideas of the two drafts I have too far together. This one I can hopefully have one nice successful edit. I'm running into so many problems and the app seems simple enough but for some reason, I just don't know how to use it. I'm going to to a well-deserved break because I've been working on this for over an hour. At least I have something started to work off of when I continue tomorrow. Will I be able to use the app successfully or will I need to find another one. What do you guys think? Stay tuned for the next blog and as always thank you for your support. 














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