Once I was just adding clips to the timeline, the pace of the editing picked up.I found the lyrics for the song and underlined phrases that I knew would work with paintings from my pandemic series. I would start with one shot and then work forwards or backwards from there. The green markers were added in the timeline by tapping the M key on the keyboard to the beat of the music. Sometimes I cut the music to the beat, at others I would linger and hold shots to the lyrics.
My main goal was to achieve a driving fast paced edit. I had some concern since things might move so fast that people might not catch every detail in the paintings. I decided to keep things moving fast, and if someone wanted to linger on details, they could watch the film again.
All these shots were just lifted off the blog, so they are rather low res and still have the dates and copyright watermarks. Those will be removed as I revise each shot in After Effects for a sense of depth. There are 189 shots in the film, so I have my work cut out for me.