It's Finally Sort of Complete

We just spent all day editing. I'm really tired so this is going to be brief. We finished editing all of the visual aspects of our video. Every shot we're using is edited as perfectly as we could. The last minute took just as long as the first despite our newfound knowledge. We also got to struggle with the lighting of our first 30 seconds today, something we purposefully skipped last time. That was fun. (That's sarcasm)

Nothing we tried looked quite right, so we had to settle for mediocre lighting for a good 15-20 seconds of the project. It's unfortunate, but there was nothing we could do other than refilm, which we don't have for even if the actors were available, or we could suddenly learn everything there is to know about colors in film. Neither of these options seemed particularly viable so we settled for mediocre. It's alright, but it's not great. Adequate, if you will.

After getting all of our clips together, we decided to add our credits. We wanted to integrate them into our film, so I spent like 20 minutes creating our own text message. We used that for a couple credits and then realized it didn't look good. It just didn't feel like it belonged despite our film revolving around social media. All my hard work down the drain, just like that. So, we replaced it with simple text instead. If it works, it works.

Example caption.

We also got our narration recorded today. It was roughly 40 seconds of audio to read our 6 full lines. That was too much narration. We ended up having to cut like half of it. It was quite the struggle trying to finagle our audio so it fit while also sounding okay. We got there in the end, but 2 or 3 of our 6 lines are no longer with us. May they rest in peace.

We also finally came up with a name for our film. I say "came up with," but it was basically the opposite. We couldn't think of anything, so we just named it after our main character. So our film is now called Tiffany. We then spent way to long looking at a drop down list of fonts before we stumbled across one that fit. I think it looks pretty decent and that was good enough for me after like 8 hours of working. It's nice and techy while retaining a girly vibe because it's pink. It's off-centered for some reason I don't fully understand. Enjoy.

After all our hard work, our video ended up at a whopping 2 minutes and 3 seconds. Yup, we were over the limit. So when we get an F on the project, now you know why. We're going finish the audio at some point, we don't know when. We were tired so we all went home.

Looking back, this was not very brief. I guess I rant a bit when I get tired. More reading for you, I guess.