And.. scene! Production comes to an end

 As of today, March 28th, I am completely finished with filming my opening and it's been an awesome experience. It feels more surreal than ever to finally be able to see my visions come to life and see them come together in one video. I thought these eight weeks would feel like a lifetime, but it's quite the contrary. On Monday, I got through half of my opening and it came out as 1:20 in my Adobe Premiere timeline. The best feeling is being able to check off certain shots from my storyboard during and after filming. Here are a few photos from Monday:

In the far right photo, I also got some foley out of the way that I needed to do for the first half of my timeline. I did some footsteps, my shoes falling to the ground, and the bag ruffling I spoke about in my previous blog post from a while ago. All I have to say about Monday is that filming in a fridge is a PAIN. I had to readjust the camera's aperture and ISO frequently so my background wouldn't look overexposed, but in the end, I was pretty happy with how all these shots came out. For a visual representation of my timeline yesterday:

As for my second day of filming, Tuesday, this is when all the action was taking place in Iris's room. I needed to film the shots of myself in the room and the mother's clips, which my lovely mother helped me do. I directed my mom on how she should act to make it look as natural as possible since she isn't very artistically inclined, but she understood the assignment! She actually did really well for her first time being on camera and I enjoyed filming the shots in the room the most because it was the part where we finally get to know Iris. 

 

Some Directing Moments

 

Now it's just a matter of importing the second half of my footage in and making sure all the audio is cohesive throughout the opening. I feel like perfecting the audio will take me a while longer than the footage itself. On that note, I'll see you next time when I'm done editing!