Back to Work

     



           After my break, I decided to go back to working on my film. Even though I am almost done, it feels like I still have a long way to go. Since I had to redo some of the scenes and fix my script, I need to go back into looking at my editing and see how I can fix the editing to be not so obvious. While opening up the editing software, I lost some of the footage due to an error. I was so upset when I saw this, because I now had to watch every slide to see what scenes were missing. When I watched the film over I found 3 scenes I was missing: Kitchen, Beach, and Morning scene. I am going to try and film the kitchen and morning scene this weekend, while the beach scene is a little harder to work on. My actor for the beach scene is out of town right now and have no idea when they are getting back. Therefore, I might have to change the actor to one of my other friends. It still works because the scene shows how others ignore the signs of bullying and depression by pushing it off to the side. With all of the fallbacks I have had during the project, I am worried that it is not going to turn out good. I am still going to try to make the best out of the situation and fix the errors while getting back on track. I hope to fix these errors before next weekend so that I can focus on sending my finished product to other peers for review. My plan is to have 2 people give their feedback on my finished product, and see what other errors I missed. After this, I will talk to my teachers on the next step to submitting my project. 

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