During this project I have learnt a lot about film making and myself, I will take away more skills than I had before i started and put them to use in the future. When I started out I was really unsure of what storyline I wanted to do, I wanted to do something I was really passionate about this way I wouldn't loose interest as it's such a long project.
In my spare time I make YouTube videos, I enjoy this a lot and since I've been uploading other people enjoy my videos too. One afternoon my cousin comes up to me and says she too wants to start uploading videos to YouTube, I thought it was great she wanted to do something like that but at the same time, my cousin is 10 years old. I told her to wait until she's older because I don't think it's safe to be online that young. This got me thinking about my project and how I could do a video on the darker side of the Internet, nothing too sinster but just to show awareness that it's not good all the time.
When it came to story boarding I had a few visions on how I wanted the film to look like, a vlogging style of film was defiantly one of them. The audience I want to attract would be used to a vlogging style because they watch videos like this already but I wanted to show that I could do normal shots too so in the last scene I changed it completely, though this was a lot harder than I first thought (I speak about this in a previous post.)
There was a few technical difficulties I came across when it came to exporting. My file sizes where much to big and it was causing my laptop to become full very quickly, when I realised this I had to play around with the settings and save it as a lower resolution. I also bought a 4 terabyte external hard drive which then allowed me to move files onto that. Though this was such a pain I figured a way around this and learnt a lot about file sizes.
Now I am at the end of the project I have come to the conclusion that 1) I am not an actress, its very hard watching the film back because I cringe a lot at how bad my acting is and 2) I have realised that i don't mind editing film (when I'm not acting in it) but i really like playing around in After Effects for intros etc. I also realised that I would much rather film and edit some adventure / traveling videos once I finish university I am thinking of taking a gap and hopefully I'm going to be able to achieve this.
