Week 8 brought the kind of creative tension that's both challenging and inevitable when passionate collaborators have strong visions for the same project. As we moved deeper into post-production, the team found ourselves at a crossroads regarding editorial direction. There were different perspectives on pacing, shot selection, and how best to balance the music with our visuals. Rather than forcing consensus prematurely or sidelining anyone's creative input, we made the strate

Week 7 marked the shift from production to post-production. The reality set in of editing, refining, and discovering what we actually captured versus what we thought we captured. Reviewing the Footage: Managing Expectations The team gathered to review our shoot day footage with a mix of excitement and pragmatism. We got less usable material than we'd hoped for especially with our troubleshooting on stage, but that was expected. The XR stage is unforgiving: technical limitatio

After five weeks of concepting, building, refining, and optimizing, we finally had our shoot day on the XR stage... Stage Day: Controlled Chaos Shoot days have a particular energy - equal parts adrenaline and precision. My role as model handler meant being hyper-vigilant about every detail that could break visual continuity between takes. Hair, makeup, wardrobe all needed to be absolutely perfect to make our work in post simple. Violetta, our model, was a last-minute casting