Breathe

Breathe tells the story of a man struggle against his own mind, and how connection can provide light even in the darkest times.

 Film Making is HARD.

That is the main take away for me from this project, and don’t get me wrong I did not think it was easy but good gravy I did not expect this. The further along I got with Breathe the more I began to realize why film crews have so many people on them, it is to make sure no one loses their mind. Trying to track every single piece of a production is ridiculously overwhelming and Breathe is only 3 minutes long. Anything longer and it would be impossible. The writing stage was the easiest, even with all the limitations set forth to try and make production less of a hassle I found the writing simple enough. Even the pre-production came together with less trouble then I had been expecting, thank goodness I had planned ahead in the writing stage.

Postproduction is where things go from okay to the ship is sinking everyone bail out, first thing that goes wrong I import my files incorrectly but don’t notice. When I go to export my rough cut everything is wonky and I realise my mistake, cue cursing and panic as I re-start from the beginning. After reimporting and re-editing the rough cut is finished and I hate it to bits and pieces but it’s okay there is time to fix everything will come together.   

Enter COVID-19.

The school shuts down everyone gets sent home and we sit and wait to see how all of this is going to go down. How am I going to edit this monster? I don’t have AVID at home and even if I could afford it my computer would probably burst into flames if I tried to use it. So this puts me back to the beginning again, restart the edit this time in Premiere and hope the world doesn’t end before I can get this done.

We can only hope.