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Brainless Babe Film Opening

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Editing Obstacles

I have the worst luck in Premiere LOL! It didn't work for a couple reasons:

1) My videos wouldn't export correctly

2) The way I filmed the videos didn't properly fit the frame

3) My laptop isn't suitable for Premiere

Of course, I go to my friends for input on what's wrong but even then they couldn't fix it! What I did to try to import the media was to download them from Google Photos onto my desktop and then select the clips from there. But, there were no where to be seen once I went to locate the files through Premiere.  I met with Mia today so she could help and she suggested buying a flash drive to resolve the importing issue that I had. 

This was the flash drive I bought... I spent 30 dollars only to find out I didn't need it in the end :| 

I was running out of time so I switched ideas and asked my cousin for his laptop because I wanted to use iMovie and his laptop is a Mac! He let me borrow it and it worked perfectly!!! It's a lot easier to edit on, in my opinion, and all I really have to do is put clips by each other and cut parts off. It's going really well!

Final Song!

Sadly enough, no one replied to any of my messages...

I had to result to YouTube Audio Library! 

I went through about 5 or 6 pages just listening to each song. It was so hard to choose one because I didn't think any fit. I tried my hardest to find one that matched what I was going for best and this was the one that worked well enough:

I'm almost done editing my film opening as I only have to make a couple tweaks here and there. There were a lot of fast beats in the song so I thought I should make the opening more attention grabbing by inserting a lot of quick clips when the beat changed/dropped. 

I did some research on target audience's attention span, and based on a couple articles, attention spans have reduced over the years as technology has become more integrated in our every day life. Inserting fast clips keeps the audience engaged and aware. 

Sources: 

Article 1

Article 2

Article 3

Seventeen

My friend Mia found me a song!!!! I still have to receive permission to use it, but the band who produced it is FARRR less known than anyone I've messaged thus far. The band is called LadyTron and their song "Seventeen" is describes the life of a model very well!

Agencies, casting directors, and everyone in between within the industry, want models their "prime".  They want their models to be fresh faced, and in the song, the lyrics depict just that. 

I dmmed them on Instagram but this problem occurred:

I was getting a little scared but then I searched why that happened and all I had to do was follow them :) 

Hopefully they'll answer! 

Keep you posted, 

Isa

Fresh Thoughtsssss

       Friendship is great, let me tell ya. My friends are beyond intelligent about the film industry! My friend Sebastian Fish Mathurin, who's also enrolled in this course, gave me a brilliant idea to substitute for the headline scene of the opening. We were on our way to visit our other friend Xamir when I had told him my idea for Brainless Babe. He put his creative mind to work and gave me a great idea! 

This is Sebastian, AKA "Fish": 

 Truly, a legend.

His idea: 

        Go to a place in Miami where there are a lot of billboards with models on them, and look up as if you're admiring them for their passion and dedication they have towards a hard industry. The photoshoot could still be the very beginning and then on the last flash, fade into the younger version of Giselle looking up like she knows she wants to change the industry. 

I loved this idea so much, and Miami is the best place to go to shoot a scene like this considering we're  on a very low budget and running out of time!

Anyway, 

talk soon! 

Stills

     I love stills!! Stills taken within any movie can make people feel things words cannot. I remember always looking on Instagram and seeing many directors, writers, actors, actresses, extras, and more, post stills from the film they worked on! Just recently, Jacob Elordi, amongst many others, posted stills to certain film greatly appreciated by the masses.

This is a link to one post 

Link to the other 

Everything captured within these stills is impeccable! I cannot wait to see more!

The stills from Brainless Babe feel like they need to be viewed as Instagram pictures; something you would post. I paused the video at parts where I thought Giselle looked best in, here's what I took: 

Enjoy! Until next time :)