I’ve finally finished my short film and while it was fun it was frustrating at times. I originally started editing in Kapwing but I gave up with it because I remember it was being slow or lagging a lot, and I was trying to get work done that night so I decided to switch to another software. I ended up using Cyberlink Powerdirector, a video editing software that came installed on my computer which I was already pretty familiar with. However, it is a bit old I think so the features look kind of outdated (but my video was pretty basic, so it didn’t matter much). My original idea for the short film involved me doing some animation but I just scraped that because I wasn’t confident enough in it because I haven’t animated in a while and didn’t think I could do that fast enough. Also my b-roll footage are just some videos I have on my phone (2017-now). The idea or story is still the same, that I get a letter in the mail from the future. I used those videos mainly to save time but also because I think it adds to the reminiscent element; actually looking back at younger me (also kind of goes along with the narration). The footage that progresses the plot is at the end (along with the brief clip of future me writing the letter in the beginning of the video). Overall, I think it came out decent with what I had, but the main thing I don’t like is the audio. I would go back and redo my voiceover, the mic on my computer made it sound weird.

I can’t add the video onto this post so I uploaded it to the shared google drive folder ‘FutureSelfVideo.’