Rendering shit and film.

I little excuse to blog. Because I need to talk shit but I can't talk to other people when I edit my film. Waiting for my video to render and it is a pain in the arseeeee. I want to be productive but the rendering thing is making me do work really slow. Well, an excuse nonetheless.

Hmm, I really do enjoy editing my film though, because I sort of had a vision for it in the beginning. That said, I am still rather unhappy with my story and the shots that I took. The actors were great but I thinK I could have carried it out better if I had planned the shots more and given them more consideration. Also partly because we were given such a short time to conceptualise our film, I feel like I didn't really put in my best for it. But I'm gonna do my best with whatever I have and whatever I can now. It was a really good learning journey. I would do more projects on my own but I need actors hahaha. Oh well. We'll see how that goes.

Rendering that shit again. ):

Here is a very sad story about my filming process. Okay not exactly sad but I felt really disappointed and angry at myself. I really want to cry after it happened.

So i was waiting day after day for it to rain. It has recently been rather cold and rainy at NTU (just really short passing rain actually) so I thought I would include it in my film. Initially had the idea of including a rain shot but scraped it because fake rain is hideous but then the weather recently changed my mind. Ever since Monday, I was waiting day in day out for the rain to come. It came shortly on Thursday and I was at ADM, so I tried to rush back to hall to film it. But as fate might have it, luck is not on my side. As soon as I left my studio, it stopped raining hahaha. Oh well, I decided to use fake rain in the end.

Friday came and I had another 8 hour shoot with my awesome actors. Hoped for rain but it didn't really come. I was indoors so I didn't really know. At this point, I already decided to use fake rain. I decided to stay in hall until Sat incase by some stroke of magical luck, it decided to rain I can quickly film it. AND IT DID. Okay so in the morning I did my last scene of filming with my female talent and just as we ended it drizzled. And not surprisingly, I didn't catch it either. It's okay because fake rain. I decided to laze around a bit and watch movies (actually for my submission okay, I have to write reviews/reflections on them) then around 4pm I went to film my fake rain. Prepared all my bottles and tested it out already, all was good except it looks a little fake. But it's alright, not an important scene. Yada yada yada I was down at the courtyard area and ready to film! Tested out a few shots and on my second try, I HEARD THUNDERSTORM AND I FELT DRIZZLE. It is the kind where you know it would get heavy. I went to take a dustbin lid to shelter my camera and prepare everything and pressed the record button. I watched through the tiny display screen and was REALLY HAPPY with how it's turning out. The rain poured all over me and I didn't give a tiny fuck because I thought this shot is going to be perfecto. It was a good final touch to my film. BUT HOLY MOTHER SMOKING BALLZ, turns out I did not record anything. Because I was on the view mode before that and clicking on record changes it to live feed, and I have to press it again to actually record.

I was so pissed. I was so devastated. I really was I am not exaggerating. I really thought I had the perfect shot, the shot that would make my film seem more legit. Sigh. I guess things will never turn out as you imagine. Life goes on. I'm still thinking about that stupid thing though, I probably will for a really long time. Unless I can get my A for this film, I will never forget it.

Oh well. Rendering is still a bitch.