Entry #7: Frustrating Footage

Mood: Annoyed

Hey! Sorry about my mini hiatus, life has been getting crazy on me! I didn't realize how busy I would be this week, so I'm a little off track with the work I wanted to be doing for this project. Anyhow, I'm back and ready to resume working.

It's. So. Long.

For this post, I am going to discuss my progress going over the footage. *Sigh* To start out, I'm unsatisfied with our work, and it's definitely not the result of a lack of effort. We have plenty of cool shots that look great individually, but when all of the shots are put together in a sequence it looks, well, crappy. Just look at this list of things that need to be changed! 

Although some of these changes are fairly minor, I know that every little thing carries weight when it comes to creating a *masterpiece.* Some of the common problems with the footage are that some of the shots I loved so much before now come across as too dark, too blurry, or too shaky. I'm not sure if the quality was lost when transferring the video clips from the phone to the laptop to iMovie, but something has changed. We definitely need to figure out what happened and see if there's anything we can do to fix it without having to reshoot those shots. Hopefully this is something that can be remedied.

I'm using iMovie to edit and arrange the footage we already have from our shoot last week.

Next, I'm concerned that some of the footage we do have is irrelevant, which means that there are scenes vital to the flow of our intro that are missing. When watching all of the shots put together, the sequence doesn't completely add up. I feel like we need to entirely redo the scenes where the two female characters are ignorantly working on a project while the intruder enters the house. Their actions seem to be random and frankly, scripted, despite our efforts to make it seem natural. Ughhh.

Anyhow, when Srish returns from her trip I'll be sure to discuss all of our problems with her and see what we can do to fix them. I'm just hoping that we're both on the same page... I'll be sure to update about how editing is going when I've made some headway. See you soon!