Film shooting extended

             

                                                      Film shooting extended

    Hey ya'll! I'm back with nothing but more and more updates on me and Hannah's film opening project! So although Hannah and I are mainly finished with the process, we still had a few clips that needed to be filmed in another location... 

                                                           Change of scenery

    So as you guys know, Hannah and I wanted our character to be watching a film that inspired her to follow her dreams and become an aspiring actress regardless of her unfortunate circumstance of being in a wheelchair after looking at the directions again. Hannah and I realized we screwed up and had to make EVERYTHING from scratch. So we knew that using the "Rocky Balboa" film could not be an option; we would have to make our own film.  So Hannah and I were brainstorming about what kind of film we could do.  Originally, we were going to make a film with me being the lead, and it would mainly focus on a girl and a man in the kitchen; this would be set in the 50s in black and white when women were meant to be housewives. The woman was going to stand up for herself and her rights. But we realized that I couldn't be the star in the film we're making and the film I am watching in the film opening.  Also, making this would require a male role; we did not have that in our favor. So, developing the concept would take too much time and require too much effort. So, we decided to make a documentary with Hannah's mom as the lead role. She would be acting as if she was an actress and sharing her story with fans in an interview.  She would be inspiring young people to follow their dreams no matter the circumstance.  I wrote the script and held it up as she read off of it while Hannah filmed with her tripod.  

Some things we did when shooting this portion used different angles and shots to create more of a realistic and entertaining documentary.  We cut each line of the script so that each line had a different angle or shot so that the footage was not too continuous.  Examples are shown below...

This did not take that long as all Hannah's mom had to do was read off a script, but we did run into an issue with audio. When we recorded the footage, we listened to it and realized there was too much background noise occurring in the very audible video.  Since we were outside, of course, there would be tons of noise that would make the actress's voice from being audible to the audience. There were cars passing by, birds making chirping noises, and kids playing outside. So Hannah and I had to fix the audio issue. We ended up refilming and while I held the script and filmed, Hannah used her mom's phone to voice record her voice as she spoke so that later on, we could sync the audio to the corresponding clips when we started editing. Below is an example of our audio being synced to the footage.