Production

 Fixing the Lighting

    Hello! We are now in the phase of editing our film. So far, we have put clips together, but that's when we noticed an issue: the lighting. 

    We didn't really take into consideration how hard it would be to film in the dark. We noticed when filming that the clips came out a little darker on the camera, but after putting our phone's flashlights up as an extra lighting source and also putting up candles, we thought it would be enough; however, it was not. Some people might say, "Why didn't you film it with brighter light?" or "You should have filmed it with the lights on,"  but doing this would take away the whole idea of the characters watching the movie in the dark.

    After playing with the lighting in Premiere and going back and forth on seeing which filter looks better, we finally managed to get the brightness up as much as we could without it looking unnatural. 

Before:

After:

    However, no matter what we did, the film still looked super grainy. We tried everything we could, but nothing worked. Though I'd still call it a win because the video still looked much brighter than it was before.