Today has been one of the most frustrating days I've had in a very long time.
Due to our hectic schedule we decided to pull the boys out of school today so that we could work on this project. It took ALL DAY!
We started at 10 with the initial build that will be in time lapse. That didn't take very long, but the "behind the scenes" work of double checking all the mechanisms and making the necessary adjustments took several hours. By the time we were ready to activate our chain reaction it was late afternoon.
Yeah, I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but it was a tad bit windy this afternoon. Not a lot; just enough to wreck havoc on...say...our hair triggers we were manipulating...and our dominoes that kept falling over at random. Yeah, that sort of thing. It took us almost 30 minutes between takes to reset the chain and have everything ready all at the same time. We got 1 misfire and then 3 good takes from various angles.
Unfortunately, when I was setting up the video camera that angle of the sun made it very difficult to see the video screen. I could basically guess what was in the live area, but that was about it. After we downloaded the entire video--all 8 GIG!--we were very excited to watch the raw video. That's when I noticed the smudges on the camera lens that created sun spots during the afternoon building segments!
Here's my conundrum. Do I just let it go and roll with the film I've got. Or do I try to re-shoot from the beginning which basically makes today a complete and total waste of time? If I do re-shoot, the only day that MIGHT be available due to project deadlines is this Sunday, Oct 31. (Halloween--a.k.a. Colby's 10th birthday!)
I'm posting the real-time chain reaction, as well as the introduction segment and a piece from the afternoon build segment so that maybe you could help me make a judgment call as to what I should do. Also, apparently, we had some sort of gnats flying around the main camera location.
Let me know your opinion.
http://www.vimeo.com/16302314
Chain Reaction from Sheila Lehnert on Vimeo.
http://www.vimeo.com/16303586
Intro Segment from Sheila Lehnert on Vimeo.
http://www.vimeo.com/16303614
Untitled from Sheila Lehnert on Vimeo.
I think in this post more than any other, I can really hear your voice Sheila. Like, the way you say things in this post is totally Sheila.
ReplyDeleteAnywho, I think the videos look good! I think you should keep them, especially since it took ALL DAY. Excited to see what it is all like with music and everything!
Are you ever in any of the shoots? Or is there a good shoot of your husband? I want to see all of you guys!
I don't believe so, but I can take one. Maybe I'll run that at the end with the "credits."
ReplyDeleteThanks for the words of encouragement. I'm just a perfectionist and I have trouble letting things go, so the smudges in the into and the gnats and sunspots sort of bother me, but since we are not getting graded on the PRODUCT, maybe you're right, and I should just make this a lesson in going with the flow.
I agree with Laura that you should keep the footage you have and make use of it because you have already invested so much time and effort. Also, the problems you see are not really evident to me because I don't know what you had in mind or how this is different from your vision. In other words, I don't judge as harshly b/c I don't know how it was SUPPOSED to be. I just know how it is, and I think it is GREAT!
ReplyDeleteI love the part at the end when Jayden says, "I don't believe that actually worked!"
Alos, as you already know, you can use different effects in imovie to disguise the little flaws that bother you. That's what i did on my introduction video of Heath. It just looked so terrible from the bad lighting I had to hide it somehow.
Are you going to use the parts where they hold up signs as a stop motion portion of the video?