Usually after every au edit I make, I like to document the details and progress, so even though no one sees it I can look back on them and treat it as an archive of some sorts:
1) In the first scene, he originally calls out “Francesca” instead of “Natasha”, so I had to look for a voiceover and replace that.
2) Pairing scenes of young Chris and young Scarlett was super hard because the lighting was so different and I had to make it look like they were from the same scene, especially because that scene of Chris was from Eastwick, an unrealeased movie from 2002. I had to edit the letterman jacket from purple to red because I thought it’d match the team colours better.
3) The manip of Steve, Nat, Sam, Maria, Tony and Pepper is ugly tbh but I weirdly like it?
4) I put “I’m right here.” “You always are.” In a carnival shot because they said this at the state fair while they were up there :)
5) I had to edit Scarlett’s hair from her non-MCU movies to red. Perfectionist tingz.
6) And finally, my favourite part: the football game. I took the football team and crowd scene from the original FNL show, the Steve scene is from Not Another Teen Movie and the Scarlett scene is actually a scene of her dancing in Lost in Translation. I really wanted to do a scene of Nat watching Steve play so I had to manip her out of the LIT scene and place her onto a crowd then fix the lighting 3000 times because it was so different. As for the crowd/team/uniform, the original colours were blue with orange/yellow accents but when I reread the fic I realised their uniform/team colours were red and white, so I had to mask out the yellow and blue parts of the original clips and change its colours. Manipping the crowd was unnecessary tbh, but I thought it’s be weird if I showed a blue/orange crowd supporting a red/white team.
( One of my absolute favourite things is that in Not Another Teen Movie, Jake's football uniform has the number 4 on it, and coincidentally in the fic, Steve is #4 of the Avengers)
7) The voiceover of “clean eyes, full hearts, can’t lose!” is from the original show and I thought it’d be a nice touch to the edit.
Aaaand that’s my documentary! Until next time when I make another Stevenat au.
( @beezyland I hope you’re not annoyed with these I need to appreciate this god tier fic as much as I can. )
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