Yesterday I completed 15 shots. I am now feeling confident that at this pace the film will be complete by May 11, 2023. Originally I picked this as the due date since it was the date President Joe Biden would officially declare the pandemic emergency to have ended. Of course the pandemic will still be raging on that date. May 11 also happened to be the date that the Fringe Film Festival needs films to be submitted for the free screening on May 19, 2023 at 6pm in the Orlando Shakes courtyard outside. There are no coincidences, so I submitted the film to Fringe. Now that it is approved I need to finish the final edit pronto.
In this shot I found it odd that the computer neural filters assumed the virus was so bright and thus close to the camera rather than in the mid ground on the couch. I edited the painting and depth map together in After Effects anyway and I decided I liked the effect. I applied a parallax zoom and the virus swelled as the camera moved in. This turned out to be another happy accident that I will keep in the film.