We finished (editing) YAY!!

Ok, I am going to say this for the last time (hopefully), but this is so crazy how far we have come. We completely finished editing, which basically means that we are done with the project. We don't submit it anywhere until the due date, but today is a very monumental day because we actually finished. My partner and I were joking about how this project feels like our baby at this point with all of the work we have put into it. Overall, we are so proud of how it turned out and all that we have accomplished in this project. We think that our opening is true to the coming of age genre. Considering our budget of literally nothing and our lack of film making experience, we are proud of our project and truly believe we made the best opening that we could. 

We faced some issues during the last part of editing, but it was nothing major that we couldn't solve. First, after we put all of our clips together, the time was over 2 minutes, so we had to shorten some of the clips to meet the requirement. Another issue we faced was that we had to download our title font from a different website, freebestfonts.com. We did not realize before that on the original website you had to pay in order to download the font. Lastly, we recorded the audio separately on a microphone, but it sounded bad in some scenes when we listened back to it. To fix this, we just used some of the original audio from the camera itself in some clips. If it was completely necessary, Sofie would add the recorded audio as well, which was a little time-consuming. 

Here is the last screenshot of our opening, can't show anymore because it needs to be a surprise for you guys!

Here is a quick little story about our production company. When Sofie and I were thinking of names we could use we just looked up a random object generator and the word "sketchbook" just stood out to both of us. We thought it sounded cool and could easily be a company that makes indie coming of age films.