final countdown

ITS TIME. Today’s the day, but before I officially release my film opening and post the CCR’s I just wanted to reflect on the past 9 weeks (sappy ik but I actually learned a lot and I wanna talk about it).

These 2 months of nonstop work have been intense and insane and quite frankly I’m surprised I was able to complete this project without procrastinating (ok I procrastinated a little bit, refer to last post, but that wasn’t my fault :/). My time management skills have improved SO MUCH, like before I started this project I did not think I would be able to work on this project step by step. I greatly prefer just sitting down and grinding on a project or assignment, but for this huge project, I knew I had to change things up. This project really required the entire 9 weeks to fully complete the project in a way that made my opening the best it could be.

I also learned a lot about the time and effort that goes into a film. It took me 9 weeks to do a 2 minute video, I can only imagine what it would take to make a full length feature film (I would die). Planning is such a huge part of the filmmaking process, and honestly the most important part, as I learned throughout this project. Actually filming is the easy stuff, because once you have it all planned out, it’s just a matter of putting your vision onto the screen.

Oh, and I also wanted to talk about something cool I did with the CCR, so sidebar real quick cause I wanna talk about it. For my second CCR, as I said before, I did a WIRED autocomplete interview style video, and in those videos there is a little animation that plays while the actor introduces themselves. 

[like this]

So, I thought it would be cool if I did a similar thing, so here’s what I was able to create. It literally took me like 20 minutes to make for like a 2 second thing, but it looks cool so it was worth it. 

[look at how many layers are in this timeline to get that effect]

Anyways, sorry about that little rant, but back to this project. Yeah, I thought it was really cool and I learned a lot about the process of filmmaking and how to organize myself, which will be useful in really any aspect of my life. 

Next post will be the film opening and the CCR’s. 

It was a pleasure, 

Rat, signing out