Attempted to film yesterday, “attempt” being the key word here.
My camera-man never turned up or got in contact with me, despite my best efforts, so I had to produce a one woman show yesterday, filming myself 3 times overs, as well as working the camera (pressing record and running to position, acting and then running back to turn it off again. When I watched the footage back, there was a lot of shots out of focus etc) and I can guarantee that the sound is awful, as I couldn’t sound check myself, as that would have been hilarious on camera, I will probably need to dub it to make it sound remotely acceptable.
As you can tell, my confidence in this project is growing less and less as the days go on.
I thought I was finally confident with my song for scenario 5, and after listening to it again today, I now hate it, and want to change it again, but I have no time, as I am meant to be shooting the video for the song on Thursday, with no music, because I am recording it the Thursday after…. I have got a friend who is currently trying to “fix” the song for me, so it’s more suited to the original piece in the script, but with such a short time, I really don’t think it is possible..
Scenario 9 is not working out as I planned, the projection really didn’t work, so now I have to try a new technique of filming myself and overlaying what was meant to be the projection on top of some footage, but I think after experimenting that it will be quite boring, so I think I will have to make some angles, and do the stereotypical film/tv thing to show someone is going crazy, by having my hands covering my head, moving my head around, and editing it so it’s jerky, motion blur, etc…
I can feel this project slowly crashing down around me =(, it looks brilliant on script and storyboard, but the realities of trying to make it happen with very little help is extremely hard…….
One plus side, I recorded some of the answer machine messages for scenario 1….. however, the footage shot needs to be re-shot….
Panic and Stress are really setting in with this now, I’m finding it extremely difficult and because I want to do well, it’s making it even harder to succeed in what I see in my head….
I’m dreading seeing that big fat 30 = FAIL mark on my sheet of paper =(
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