"Mini" Update: The Crashout
Since my last post, I had planned to spend a majority of today (April 21) working on another rough cut. This involved creating credits, title cards, transitions and fixing some minor audio and visual issues.
Well I did everything that I had set out to do. Spent about 6 hours working, getting everything just right and happy with the progress that I had made.
Before I get into the point of this post, let me provide a little bit of context. I am horrible when it comes to saving my progress in video games. I once encountered a glitch in Baldurʻs Gate 3 that prevented me from moving on to the next section. I decided that I should probably backtrack and see what my other options were, but my last save point that I had done was so far back I would have had to re-hit several major milestones in the storyline/game just to get back to where the glitch happened. Itʻs been about a year and a half and I have yet to play it again. At this point Iʻd rather restart the whole game, than try to figure out what happened.
With this in mind, you can probably guess what happened to me today.
I did not save any of the progress that I made on my project since I started this morning. At about 5:30 in the afternoon, my computer froze and decided to turn itself off. I havenʻt checked any of the Auto-Save files yet, so this is me crashing out prematurely, but this post is mainly to remind future me and others to SAVE YOUR DAMN WORK.
Outwardly, this is me:
Internally, this is me.
I’ve also been keeping track of my expenses for this project. My largest purchase related to this capstone film is for the rights to use some footage via Getty Images. As of today, I have spent nearly $2,000.
Of course, the money will eventually come back so I shouldn’t worry. But it just puts into perspective how invested I was with this whole experience.
UPDATE: Thank the Universe for Adobe Premiere Pro's autosave feature. All of today's progress is there! My crashout is still valid though. I cannot stress this enough. SAVE.YOUR.WORK.
Of course being that I had been working on my project all day, there was a moment where I wasn't paying attention to where I was placing some clips/audio. Somehow I had managed to erase all of my title cards for my interviewees and the cropping on some of my interviews is off. Time to call it a day and turn in what I have so far for more feedback.
A screenshot of all the progress I have made over the past week, featuring one of my favorite moments from the entire film. Still need to: add more b-roll, polish my transitions, cut redundant clips out and fix audio levels. I would say that at this point I'm 90% done and should be able to finish everything by my deadline of April 28.
