Production Blog: Still Making a Few Edits

 Hey bloggers and welcome back to the creation of my opening sequence. Much similar to the theme of our past few blogs. We're going to be looking back at my film sequence and continuing to make even more changes as I still do not feel satisfied. Today I was really analyzing the pacing and order of the scenes in our opening sequence. Every time I rewatched I felt something was off, but I could never quite put my finger on it, this bothered me throughout the whole week. I felt that there was something wrong with how the plot was structured and how the movie transitioned and how long each portion of the plot was. I tried moving around the scenes entirely shifting them out of place. Trying new structures of the plot but it strayed too far from the original pitch and was confusing at times. Throughout this process I was getting increasingly frustrated which was obstructing my creative thinking. I took a break for a few days and rewatched the sequence again. I realized that I had been overthinking far too much in terms of what was actually wrong with my sequence. All it needed was a few seconds shaved off of it in order for the pacing and transitioning to make more sense. After coming to this realization, I immediately started looking for fluff in the sequence that was not relevant to the pitch or the progression of the sequence. I also kept in mind to be very careful as to not remove too much of the sequence as it would then be cut too short. I also kept in mind cutting out parts of dialogue that might make the rest of the sequence not make sense. I was essentially only trimming the corners of our sequence in order to create a refined product. I cut out a few seconds of the music and dancing during the driving to the campsite scene. This scene dragged out for far too long and had a terrible effect on the pacing of the film. I also cut out a few seconds of the eggs cooking as well as this also seemed pointlessly long. Well, that's all bloggers and thank you for reading hope you have a splendid day!



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