Helloo!! Welcome back or welcome to my blog!! Looking back at my film, I feel so proud of our finished product. My group and I worked sooo hard to make this film perfect. With that being said... there are still some things that would've elevated it to the next level!! After all, this is a student film, but given our resources, we did our best to maximize the quality and realness of the film. In today's post, let's imagine we had a genie to grant us 3 wishes to make our opener even better!
1. Camera
Although we were blessed to be able to use a good quality camera from a friend (Thank you James 🙏🙏), we did still unfortunately face some issues with recording. For one, the battery of the camera burned pretty fast, so there was a couple times where we had to fully stop production to charge the camera... which sucked. Also, I will say that the camera had issues with focusing on MULTIPLE occasions. At one instance, we literally had almost 10 MINUTES of footage recorded that was completely unfocused. This was an annoying issue we had to face causing us to re-film the entire scene on a separate day, taking up even more time. I feel that even though the camera quality was more advanced than let's say an IPhone for example, it would be even better if we had a higher quality ( probably more expensive) camera for more refined, sharp footage. I don't want to sound ungrateful though- I cannot thank Phi's cousin James enough for gracing us with his camera. He let us use it for days on end, and at end of it all, it helped us make a great product.
2. Car
Additionally, if there was something I would change about our film, it would be the car used. Although I feel very proud of our car scene, I think something that would have elevated it even more would have been a car that had removable doors and a removable sun roof. Even though we achieved a cool look with Maria out the window and Yve out of the sunroof, I think it would look even better with a more summery car like a jeep, bronco, or convertibleee!! In a perfect world 😓😓. I feel this would amplify that care-free vibe we wanted to achieve. Painting the picture, imagine if we had a topless, doorless car- Wind flowing, sun beaming, I feel like this would’ve looked really cool. If we had this, I think we would’ve also been able to incorporate a greater variety of shots and angles during this car scene, thus elongating the scene duration as well. For example, we could have utilized an arc shot highlighting the open sunroof showing all girls inside.
3. Pro editing
When it came to editing, we did run into a few issues. If I would make a wish from the heavens above, I would wish for a smoother editing experience!!! Okay... maybe I'm being a little dramatic. Editing wasn't all THAT BAD after a while, but in the beginning we did face some trials and tribulations. Like I mentioned before, my group and I had a lottt of ideas, some of which heavily relied on editing. For example, for one our scenes, I wanted to animate polaroid pictures stacking on stop of each other using the photos that were taken of our characters showing off their college merch. My fellow group members saw the vision and agreed that it would be really cool to include (even Mariana's mom liked the idea!). Despite the fact that this was creative and unique, trying to execute it was a HASSLE!! I downloaded multiple editing softwares trying to execute this idea; I was sooo determined!!! Sadly, after a lot of trial and error, the product still did not reach the par we wished for. Due to this, I would’ve liked to have more time to get familiar and master our editing software in addition to more transition options.
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