A learning experience taken from this project is the difficulty in continuity due to weather changes, the time, or costuming and makeup. For example, one day it was extremely windy during production and we set out to finish our ending for the opening. We managed to almost film everything, but had to re-film the next day and it was an issue due to the lack of wind. Then the time kept being an issue for me and my partner because either it was too sunny to film certain parts or it got too dark and we had to use the footage despite the error. Another occurrence was managing to keep the “blood” splatters in the same places as best as we could because it is necessary to keep the continuity the same and we could not have one blood splatter here, but then the next clip it vanishes. Another issue was during post-production, I recently cut my hair shorter and it was visible when we re-filmed some clips, but we managed to hide it to the best of our extent. An “a-ha” moment would be finding the perfect costuming for our character. We managed to go through a white tank top and shorts to a white tank top and black cargo pants then ultimately settling for a black dress. We wanted to go for an all white costume to stand for purity, but then changed the concept to a more eerie outtake with the black dress to further enhance the mystery for our character and the question, “Why is she running through the forest in a dress?”
These two videos show our issue with the time and weather. The video above was taken during “golden hour” and the wind was not strong during that day whereas the video clip below was during a windy and gloomy day and close to raining. We decided to choose the clip above for our opening since the performance was better than the other outtake despite the continuity issues that could arise.
In the first clip it shows my hair when I made the big chop and the second video clip shows how my hair was previously. When I chopped off my hair, I did not realize how this was gonna affect our film and my partner did not realize either until we began actually filming, but we managed to finish everything and needed to add filler shots so the film opening is more coherent and makes sense to the viewer. We overcame this issue by lowering my head in almost every shot we re-filmed so the viewer does not see the actual length of my hair.
Driving Insanity 