finished filming + editing part 2

Filming weekend Part 2 :000.

This weekend was filled with filming, AGAIN. It’s like deja vu. On Saturday (the 23rd, sorry for the late update, there has been a lot going on), I, once again, acted in another one of my friend’s projects for A Level. She’s doing a short story as well and asked me to be in and I, of course, said yes. What can I say, everyone wants me, watch out Hollywood. But ya, I had a great time, her project is awesome.  

[me playing the character ;)]

Like I said in my last post, I did actually finish filming the re-do clips on Saturday, so even more filming that day. YAYYYYY!!!! FILMING IS OVER and the shots actually look good this time. WE DID IT. 

Quick comparison of the shots from before and the shots now:

LOOKING AT SHARPIE

[before]

[after]

LOOKING INTO BOX

[before]

[after]

FLIPPING PEN CAP OFF

[before]

[after]

That’s a few of the shots that I had to re-do cause of lighting, and they turned out SO MUCH BETTER. I’m glad I re-did them, even if it was annoying. 

Ok, now that filming is actually over, I can get back to editing. Flashback to a while ago, after editing the first 40 seconds of the opening, I went back in the next day [the 21st, so before finishing filming] and finished up the rest of the opening, without the new shots that I filmed on Saturday. I included the bad shots to again act as a place holder like I did for the beginning part like I said in my last editing post. But, it’s not at all close to being done. I was having SERIOUS trouble with figuring out what kind of music to put in for the second portion of the opening. For context, after Iris gets the text message from Helen, the music from before stops as she responds, but then I want to have music again cause it’s just so awkward without it. But finding the right fit for music SUCKS. So, I just skipped over that and just went on with editing everything together, not worrying about music (cause it doesn't really need to be matched up to the music like the beginning portion does). The sounds that I did include, however, were the environmental sounds, which I used the same platforms I did before (Youtube Audio Library and Pixabay!!).

Flash forward back to today, now that I have all the re-done shots, I can go back in and replace them. So that’s what I did. Oh, and I did in fact find a decent piece of music to have for this part of the opening, once again from the wonderful Purple Planet. 

Now that I have the entire opening edited together (that’s insane) I have to go back in and add in all the credits and whatnot. I, of course, had to credit Purple Planet, but other than that most of the credits were just going to be to me. However, for the actors, since most opening scenes to a film include all the major actors, I had to make up a couple of names for the rest of the main cast, who I would say to be the mom, Helen, and the guy who befriends Iris after everything, and of course Iris. So I just had to come up with three random names, pretty easy. 

Anyways, here’s the beginning of the opening with all the credits edited together (no spoilers, you don’t get to see the entire thing just yet):