Thanks for posting, Blaine. I enjoyed watching the film. Got me proper fucked up on those high school nostalgia vibes
My advice is:
1) keep making things
2) try to be more considerate of the pace of editing. while on one hand we are in this 0 attention span, jumpcut hell of a modern world, and some slow edits can be refreshing, I thought this was the biggest thing that could improve the quality of your short film(s). dont think of it like you are making the pace fast, its more about trimming the fat to get the best bang for your buck from every shot. every shot is an opportunity to deliver new information to the audience, so know when there is dead space and consider for example, -> "maybe here, I should cut this shot from 6 seconds to 3 seconds, because the information conveyed is already obvious from the first 3 seconds, and hanging on the shot for too long might inadvertently break the audience's immersion"