Making of - short video

After completing the research and planning stage, my family and I returned to the location I had chosen the previous day. While the rest of my family visited the area again, my sister and I stayed behind to focus on filming the short video, which allowed us to work without any distractions and bring my idea to life.

The filming process was simple and fun, yet creative. I decided to use my phone as the primary camera, while my sister's phone was a source of light since it was nighttime.

We recorded multiple takes since I wanted to experiment with different camera movements and angles. After doing it again and again, I was finally able to get closer to the style I had envisioned.

This is an example of a video I made in the process of creating the final short video.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Aku5ALv-FlqVquriGRPO3KFNG7v03mOg/view?usp=sharing

The video quality was inconsistent, the lighting did not create the vibe I was going for and the camera kept losing focus. However, even if I wasn't satisfied with the video, it helped me improve the final outcome.

Around half an hour or maybe a bit more into filming, I finally captured multiple videos that were good enough to use for the final video. When we got back to the apartment, me and my sister reviewed each one carefully and chose the clips that we both liked the most.

Once the clips were chosen, I looked for a music that would match the mood of the video. My top choices were West Coast and Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey, as both songs matches the tone and atmosphere I was going for.

For the editing stage, I decided to work with an editing app I was not very familiar with to challenge myself. I worked with overlays, fades and transitions. The first few times, the video did not turn out as well as I hoped. After showing my sister my videos, she told me I could do better, which encouraged me to edit the videos once again. That time, I added more clips from multiple videos, cut them into shorter clips, arranged them next to each other, adjusted the overlays, refined the transition, and at the end synced the music to the final video.

Overall, the editing process took longer than I expected since I am not used to using CapCut, maybe between 40 and 70 minutes.

The first edited video was probably longer than 20 seconds, but it had a lot of flaws and I didn't really like it, so when I reedited the whole video, I had to make it shorter to ensure that it's visually enjoyable, which decreased the time from 15-25 seconds to 10-15 seconds.

Here is the link for the first version of my edited video, which, of course, is pretty horrible.. and I'm really happy I took my time to redo it.

first version: https://youtu.be/2n7t0MA84sc

Final version (not fully finished): https://youtu.be/Ce_yMNONvbM