Production: Day 2

Our second day of production was a lot less filming. On Thursday at 5:30
Rachel and I met up and we went through our footage. After our first day of
filming Rachel had already pointed out that we were missing a shot for an
eyeline match so we knew we would have to go out and get that but before we
did we wanted to make sure we didn't need anything else. I made sure to bring
all of our props just in case we did need to reshoot any footage, luckily the only
shot we were missing was that eyeline match of the tree so there was no need
to repeat the hair and makeup process again. We quickly drove to The Ridges
at around 6:40 and got the shot of the tree that we needed.

From there we went back to Rachel’s house and got to work on editing. From the
beginning one of our biggest concerns would be that we wouldn't have enough
footage, because it’s hard to estimate how long each shot will be based on just a
storyboard. Rachel had already chopped up about half of the footage and our
problem ended up being that we had too much footage rather than not enough. So
we spent some time making the shots nice and tight as well as speeding up some
of the shot we felt went by too slow, we couldn’t completely omit many of the shots,
which was our original plan if it came out too long, but the shots all work together
in a sequence to tell the story. We did however, manage to cut our opening down
from 2:48 to 2:08

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Then came the music, Rachel and I both really liked how the song I found, “English
Country Garden” fit with our opening but it really was too short, so I have spent some
time trying  edit the music, but, basically recomposing the music is not something I am
too well versed in so I’ll be giving it a few more tries and if it doesn’t work we have
already started looking for other options.