Dealing With the Challenges

 

Today we continued with our project. However, the focus was to fix certain parts of our music video. While going over the scenes we filmed yesterday, we realized that one of the scenes was not exactly the way we had in mind. The music we chose was supposed to flow with the scene and then transition to the next scene. But our main character was not going with the music beat and seemed to be falling a little delayed. Violet filmed the scene various times again. She used different techniques to redo the filming but the work looked sloppy. We started getting somehow impatient that we needed some other options to use. After being pleased with the filming we did yesterday, it seemed like we must have been so tired, that we did not realize it needed cleaning. One thing for sure was that we did not want to sacrifice hitting the beats on the music. We all started suggesting different techniques to try on. And every single option was tested. We zoomed the camera in and out, going side by side, moving from one spot to the other, etc. Finally, using the slow slide above him seemed to be the best option in this case. Giving up hitting the beats of the music started sounding like it might be one of our options. Filming was redone a couple times until we were all happy with it. It was not an easy task, but we were finally able to come up with something that was acceptable for all of us.  At the end we all agreed that we had to compromise and use the best that we were able to come up with. The whole point was to make the video look as professional as possible. We experienced a very challenging, but productive day!

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