Short Film: Update #36 winding down

Hello hello! Being as this week I finished off pretty much all the visuals, I think I’ll put a pause on these weekly updates. Just feels that there won’t really be that much to write about and might pose a risk of ending up sounding all quite same-y. So from now on, I’ll write these as and when I see fit, rather than a fixed weekly update.

Apologies if you’re an avid reader here, but I don’t want to bore you: I probably do that enough as it is! And it’s not like I don’t have a load of other stuff to write about on here anyway. Being as the work on my film is significantly slowing, it actually gives me space to focus on my other creative ventures, so yes, you’ll hear less about my film, but more about my other stuff. Which for me is very exciting! I genuinely love and get such a thrill out of creating things and I have a load of fun project ideas to get to work on, so watch this space!

Anyway, rambling away as usual, so back to my film: I did another decent re-edit during the week and I really feel like it works as a solid story now. It was quite difficult to get the first couple of minutes down- and to balance the pace/ dramatic elements, but I think I finally figured it out (with the help of my boyfriend who gave me some very honest feedback about what was working or not). Editing is so hard to do alone sometimes (especially at the latter stages of a project) and is very useful to have someone to bounce ideas off and also keep you grounded.

I also had one of the voice recordings back from one of my voice actors, which was great. It was only one line, but it has already made an improvement to my film and makes it feel like it’s all coming together nicely. So thank you David Holt!

And lastly, on Friday I managed to get a load of other (film related) stuff done! These tasks were only down as ‘maybe’s’ on my to do list for this project, but I had a wave of enthusiasm/ inspiration/ whatever come over me enabling me to complete four leftover little tasks. I just went for it! And it made me feel so good and positive about the project. Plus it wasn’t like they were really easy things either- one was an After Effects shot and they were all a bit of a faff to be honest. So yeah, I’m mega happy about that, especially as I wasn’t sure if I was even going to bother doing them at all. But they’ve made such a difference to my film. It’s the little details like these. Picture of the Premiere timeline below, because I don’t have much else to illustrate this blog with today!!

Bet you’re all wondering how my skate progress is going as well, aren’t you?! Oh go on then. I Ollied my first stair set the other day- it was only a very small two stair, but it was a nice trick to have got done, because I’ve been trying for the longest time to get the commitment to land it. I’ve had the ability to do it for quite some time, but not the self belief/ confidence to stick the landing. I think if I believed more and had more confidence I’d progress at a much better rate. I need to stop telling myself I’m bad at things because I end up believing it. Same with animation/ creative stuff or life in general. There are so many skills in skateboarding that are transferable to real life… xo