Reflection on Filming

     As I said previously, the filming itself went by way easier and more fun than expected. We were not really stressed out by any of the problems we ran into as we had to make do with what we had and decided we couldn't do much about it. Overall, I think it all ended up going really well and I'm happy with how it turned out. The only real problem which we were bummed out about was about the length limit of the film opening. It is required to be around 2 minutes as a maximum which we thought was a lot until we started filming. We then realized it is a really short amount of time and that's still to do without cutting, editing, and more. We filmed over 5 minutes of raw footage and had to scrap 2-3 of our scenes bringing our total time up to 2:28 but we also still had to cut some in the editing process which will bring it down to the two minutes. Now all that is left is to edit and refine all the footage and then start working on our CCR.



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