Why did I do this to myself?

    I suppose it was not my most intelligent idea to have one of my CCR products take place at nighttime, but I guess that's life. Maybe I am being a little dramatic, but having to film your project in the dead of night, when all you want to do is sleep and you are already in your pajamas is an unnoticed form of torture. Plus, when you have your mom as the camera person, it is just the extra little cherry on top. 

    Okay, but to give everyone an update on the film opening, we are almost done! All the editing is basically complete, and all we are waiting on is for Maiya to do the color grading, which I expect to be done by Friday (I mean it). 

    For an update on the CCR, I have filmed my first CCR product, and it was truly an experience. I'm not gonna lie, I didn't plan it well at all. Plus, we ran into some serious problems.

 Let me just vert for a hot minute.

    The first problem I ran into was the stupid lighting. Because it takes place in a dark bedroom, I had to figure out how to make sure it still looks dark, but that people can see what is going on. At first, I tried not to use any kind of lighting, but that was a fail. So then, I caved and I used my soft light on the lowest setting with a towel over it. Then, it because visible enough. 

    Also, I never expected it to be so hard to create glowing eyes for my demon, but it was terribly hard. I could not get the eyes to a suitable brightness to where it was not absolutely blinding the camera, which proved to be difficult. What I ended up doing was taping some notebook paper over the lights so that it was not so stupid bright. Here's what the demon ended up looking like. 

    Spooky looking, no? Anyway, I hope it good enough to at least sell the idea, but I have a feeling it is going to look kind of goofy. 

    Another issue, that was completely my fault was that I forgot to include the second question in the script... HEAR ME OUT. I know exactly why I forgot. Because I had treated the first question as two seperate questions, I just thought "Oh, I'm done with the script." WRONG. I was indeed not done. But it's alright, as I am the God of improvising. Give me five minutes and my blog, and I whipped up some transitions for the other question. The rest of my answer will be done in voice over. That's all I could come up with at flipping eleven-o'clock at night, so it is going to have to be good enough. 

    And then, switching over to my second product, I have made some progress. So, I have fully recorded and edited the rap track to use for filming the music video, which is great. Still, I have yet to edit the recordings I have of the song part, which I plan on editing tomorrow morning to have it ready for the shoot in the afternoon. Am I packing my schedule too much? Who knows, but it will all work out surely. 

    Anyway, I am sorry to say, but I am ready for this project to be done. This week is the final boss. Always the hardest battle, but the most rewarding.

And now for the movie quote of the day...

"We're gonna have fun, and we're not gonna freak out." - Charlie Kenton, Real Steel (2011)