Day Two of Filming!

Progress has been pretty slow recently.  After filming the first batch of scenes on Wednesday (which was the most time-consuming and stress-inducing by far), I've taken things pretty slow.  On Thursday, I was reunited with Joey yet again after he came over to my house to film his own production with my good friend Mica.  Joey's production is about an edgy aspiring musician, and I guess that he just found my room to be stereotypically emo enough (ironically, this is the second time that my room has been typecasted like this for a Media Studies project).

Anyway, while Mica and Joey were shooting some footage, I was hard at work downloading all of my files and importing them into Premiere Pro.  This sounds like an easy enough task, but actually took a good while considering the length and size of the videos, as well as the fact that my PC isn't exactly an editor's dream.  As soon as I managed to get all the files in Premiere, I noticed immediately how slow the app was working.  Having never experienced any problems of this kind before, I was struck by them now.  Mainly, I noticed that the "File" tab wouldn't even open, which made me anxious over the app crashing, and me losing all the progress I had made.

As soon as Joey and Mica finished filming all their scenes, I decided to take advantage of the fact that I had Joey with me and film another one of the scenes for my film.  This was a risky choice, considering that I didn't have Ren's camera with me, and that my main actor was wearing different clothes.  The second problem was pretty easily overcome, as my brother happened to have the exact same beige crewneck that Joey wore throughout the first day of filming.  However, there is a shot where you can clearly see that he's wearing a white shirt underneath.  This is a huge continuity error, as Joey was wearing a dark brown shirt on the first day.  When I noticed this, I asked him to wear the beige crewneck by itself, and managed to minimize the damage (to an extent).  Regardless, I fear that this will be seen as unprofessional and sloppy.

Yet, the biggest issue is the fact that I didn't shoot the footage on Ren's camera.  Instead, I filmed on Joey's iPhone 13, which has a superior camera quality and looks pretty professional.  However, when I imported this new footage onto Premiere, the contrast to the other footage was stark.  In comparison, the new scenes looked blurry, overexposed, and overall just not up to par.  I can see only two ways out of this: Either I ask Joey and Ren over and re-film everything, or I just live with it.  Although I would feel extremely annoying if I were to re-shoot, it might be for the best.  Additionally, I have one more scene to film involving Joseph and Father Peter, and I could kill two birds with one stone by filming them all on the same day.  Updates to come!

Me directing Joey (taken by Mica)