Editing!!!

 I am so happy to have started editing! I know I do not have all of the scenes filmed but I saved space in the program to insert and begin editing what I can. It is difficult to match some of the scenes but I am working with what I have and planning for the next.

working on multiple devices
- I edited the clip that I knew I needed splicing and resent to my laptop and was able to easily import the file to continue editing efficiently.

For a specific shot, I needed to splice it and I was having difficulty doing so on Premiere. It has been a while since my last experience on Premiere, so I decided to work from my phone because I knew how I needed to do what I wanted. I am so glad in my investment in buying a computer before this product that works along with my phone in production. 

I organized all of the clips I recorded on my phone into favorites (which would be useful clips) and then combined them into an album and then sent the album to my computer. From that, I was able to start editing in sections. 

For later choices in Instagram uploads, I know there are quite a few bloopers (which I would like to upload) and I can sort through these favorite videos to find the actual clips. 

I do know from editing today that I would need to reshoot those night shots I took previously with TJ because there is music that is interfering with the car audio. Planning to film tomorrow the morning scene and just carefully maneuvering the lighting to configure an early morning, because there really are no more opportunities to film in the morning. If there is extra time tomorrow, I will try to get some film time with Sofia before there are scheduling mishaps. 

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Starting editing process

 I am talking to Sofia about the final shot I need with her. I need the morning scene with TJ still and the blackout scene. Sofia and I will work with the needed voices and lines after I finish all of the shots and start editing. 

I just got very sick and have been unable to do much on the front of shooting or editing. I have been trying all day between the times I am resting to upload all of the content I created. My Icloud did not have enough storage to just sync the content from my phone. I upgraded my storage and have been trying many facets all day to upload the scenes I recorded. 

In the meantime, I have been able to make an Instagram post. By tomorrow I should be feeling better and will be able to get more of my content uploaded. If I did it manually, it would take quite some time to upload one video let alone the almost 100 shots I have. Included there are bloopers that I would like to edit on Adobe Premiere for Instagram.

I am now at 8 posts on Instagram and this is how it is looking: 

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good progress

 Thursday we were able to film the required scenes for TJ and Sofia. There was a strain on filming Thursday morning for the morning scene in the film. TJ asked to reschedule and we almost had to reschedule the Thursday night shooting. 

I talked with Sofia on Wednesday about filming the additional shot we need at the end of the film when we find out that TJ got into a car accident. She agreed to do it and we can plan to film that simple scene soon. I had an idea to film it like those films where the 50s housewife who killed her husband gets told her husband died and has to act surprised. A little malicious in intent for the scene. We also agreed to change the Voiceover work for the sins to be Sofia's voice. She can record three different voices and I will modify them post-production. 

Here are some shots I grabbed of the shooting on Thursday:

The week goes on

 Tomorrow I will be filming the morning scene for the film with TJ in the morning. Hopefully, I can take some camera shots for Instagram when I finish those shots. As always I will look through the footage for clips I can post or other stills that look interesting. I am waiting to post more on Instagram until I get a new source of different shots. I could post more shots from the gym, but I don't want to overcrowd Instagram with the same look. 

My most recent post was a character name announcement:

On my iPhone I can see the insights of my account and how the hashtags are reaching other accounts:

           

Of the images I captured and included in my last blog post, I think I may do a quick post including them to create a surrounding theme of my posts. Following 1-2-1 where the ones represent the same scenes and the 2 follow a different theme. 

I am reaching out to Sofia to film tomorrow night and I hope she is back in town. I made a plan for the voices to be represented with her voice but modified in editing. This idea stemmed from creating a deeper infliction on Antonio where the viewer would realize that the voices were her and the revealed plot twist at the end would then support her character build-up. 

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keeping it going

 I went through the shots I filmed of Tj and took some screenshots for the Instagram. The shots work well for the voices in his head to be added in post-production. The sound of the car on the speeding shots isn't quite loud but I think I can manipulate the audio in post-production to increase the volume. If I need more car sounds I can even ask TJ to shoot his car again or other coworkers with their loud cars.

Here are some looks of the shots:

 

I will be seeing TJ later today or tomorrow so we can talk more about the needed morning clips. When Sofia gets back, which I think is before Thursday, we can work out the scenes we need her in.

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Production progresses

 My production has been progressing both on social media and in filming. Thursday I was able to begin filming and friday I was able to begin to looking over the footage and utilizing what was filmed into what I can create with it. I'll show those posts I have done.

second post

third post

I then began filming and added a behind the scenes clip of my filming on my Instagram.

 

4th post

Thankfully the filming I was able to accomplish happened. TJ had a very limited availability that day and I was able to get all the shots we needed for the gym scene and a couple of driving shots in that time. TJ went out of town for the weekend, so I am going through my shots and maybe even start editing those shots. If I edit now then I will have the clips done when I need to go through other footage.

I am already working on my next instagram posts and figuring out what I can post later. 

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ideas

I planned to film this week but scheduling has been quite difficult in that process. I was reaching out to TJ for possible times to film this week but he had agreed to a spontaneous weekend trip. Luckily, the date for the 24th to film is set but I did recently realize I will need to film Sofia one more time after that. To have Sofia address the simulation death, I thought of a scene:

 We see surrounding shots of nature or around an empty house. We see a phone on a kitchen countertop and see it light up after making a weird notification sound. We watch Sofia walk in casually and peer at the screen. She reads the screen, "subject 82155 is no longer active" we watch her response to this casually, "I thought he would've lasted longer" then "on to the next."

Working on the logo took quite some time but I am happy with how it turned out. I took multiple screenshots before the final product to include.

Before posting the final image I included - I want to run some edits over it but the design itself is finished. I enjoy the chaotic triangles that are all linked to create one that resembles a perfect shape. This idea I made stems from the three sins taking over TJ's mind and how they hold a grasp over the regular configurations. His mind is filled with negative influences that are slowly corrupting him. The logo will become my icon on Instagram and I will have a post with the title of the short film (as seen above).

stay tuned...