A Camera and a Dream 💭

 HELLOOO PARTYY PEOPLE! As we crunch down into our last few blogs I want to explain the thought process and the trials and tribulations we had to go through. 

To start off, we quite literally were given a camera and a dream to work with. None of us had previously worked with any editing programs except cap-cut, and even then we only used the sound portion and didn't experiment much with it. There were so many changes and factors in our project that made us all want to pull our hair out and just give up but persevering through it led us to where we are now! 

Furthermore, we also had to learn how to use the camera. Before I had asked my cousin to borrow his camera, he was unsure if his camera could even record properly so we were hoping and praying that it was able to record and thankfully we were able to! Moreover, the first problem we mainly faced was the fact that we weren't able to really focus our camera correctly. However, we learned how to adjust the lens and focus the camera. 

Working with these girls in such an important project has been so nice because the combination of all of our minds working together has helped us bring our project to where it is now. I also just think working with these girls flow because our ideas come out one after another and we all discuss and see if there's any way to make them better. 

Getting permission was also difficult... While our parents weren't at all strict about what time we were able to film and how many days a week we were allowed to, getting permission from people from outside of our project was difficult. For our gas station scene, we had to go to THREE different places because we weren't allowed to film in the first two, we then realized it was better to just film first without asking and reap the consequences later because at least we have our footage. In the end, the guys working at the last gas station didn't even care and even agreed to be in a scene of our movie! Unfortunately, the scene that he was in didn't up making the cut :( sorry! Additionally, using "Ribs" by Lorde was a little scary because that song is obviously copyrighted and we were worried our project would get flagged on YouTube. Fortunately! Lorde has allowed her music to be used on YouTube, so although it does say that it's copyrighted, my channel and video wouldn't have any strikes or restrictions. Just to be extra careful though, I linked her producer and record label and I also specified that the project was solely for educational purposes.