How did your production skills develop throughout this project?
Producing “A day to remember” was very challenging. At first , me and my colleague Lorena , thought that creating a film opening is the same thing as creating a music video and our first result was not actual the expected one. Our idea at the beginning was completely different from the film opening we achieved.
Throughout this process we learned many things in terms of editing, sound and even filming. From the beginning until the end of the final work, we understood how important are the small cuts in terms of the dynamics of the film opening. Showing fragments of the character’s love life and adding her voice to the background describing what she feels for him , made the film opening more interesting and vague.
At first , our goal was not to make the audience curious about the following movie, but to create a something that would help people understand how underrated love at our age is. I think that in the end , after working hours and hours to film and edit the parts of the film opening, the process made us realize that we can do both, we could present love and also make people curious about the movie and that’s is were our developed production skills took us.
Me and Lorena , complete each other really well as I am pretty good at directind and at the writing and art part of it and she is very good at editing . In the beginning it was not like that, I was scared to edit it and I though I wouldn’t like it, the editing apps looked weird for me and my laptop was crashing when I had a thought “Lore just chill, you can do this”
I was very lucky that Lorena got the editing so fast and that she is so good at it. We both worked so much to make the best out of this project. Lore really realized that she loves editing and the discovered her unexpected talent.
The time management was the tricky part because we didn't know ho much time filming actually takes. The suprise was that editing takes three times more. :) Working with the actors was really fun , we were lucky that we were such good friends with the people in the movie because we could add more suggestions to the way they danced and acted without feeling embarassed. Making people act a certain way is way trickier than we tought. Making them act out the initial fantasy you had in your head.
When we initially started media class we had no idea it was this hard. We learned editing better , relating with people better, working harder and managing to accept that the initial vision can be changed and the result can still be a succes. Working with the smoke bombs was really hard , they are quite dangerous and we had a litlle accident but we managed to retake filming two days later with the proper saftey measures.
In the end , we made the perfect team and our production skills improved in ways we would have never imagined. It was unexpected indeed but we loved it, we came to the understanding that producing a film opening changes your skills and perspectives of the product , you just got to trust the process.
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