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Editing troubles

 Editing has been, for better or for worse, really hard. When I was working on projects on my own, I was able to have full creative freedom. However, in working with a team, I have had to compromise and work on listening to my group. As a perfectionist, this has been hard in deconstructing my own ideas as to what should be done. But, getting to have differing opinions has led to solutions and ideas I never would've come up with on my own. As I and Anya were mostly acting, Angel was the one behind the camera for the majority of the filming. Halfway through some of our film days, Angel would take some extra shots or have us redo a scene from a different angle. Getting to see these ideas come to life in editing has been amazing. Little details being zoomed in on and working in longer takes seemed insignificant at first. Now, that they are starting to come together, they are more important than ever. It has been generally agreed that some of the shots we have are not as good as they could be. For now, we are putting in the scenes we have as placeholders. We now have a general idea of the movie and how long each scene will go on. Using that, we can easily cut down on filming time. Maximizing the amount we can get done in one filming session is important, especially considering we are working against both the sun setting and our preexisting schedules. I want to take a day to chat with both Angel and Anya to get a more detailed idea of what we have left to refilm. Thankfully, for every scene we have to redo, there are at least three more scenes that were really well done. Anya has been doing a great job of playing the Mystery Woman. This is to the point where I was genuinely a bit scared that she might chop my head off during filming.


This picture was taken during the filming of me and my mom's scenes in order to better understand the lighting we would need to make it happen.

Until next time, Danniella Miller signing off.

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