Filmmaker's Block

So after the initial spark and excitement of the film, it's safe to say I creatively hit a brick wall. I was really struggling with fixing the clips together so they didn't look disjointed. To reinspire myself I thought back to Matt's words in one of the meetings about a romance scene with building tension but no climax. I thought of the most infamous romance film I knew of which was Casablanca. Then I thought about how prior to lock down one of our ideas we were to film was someone constantly changing the channels of a television set. So I created this:

https://video.wixstatic.com/video/e1647e_ce617d01b1424c16b67b1eb7e31f6528/720p/mp4/file.mp4

With this edit, some aspects worked such as the loading screens and the repetition of the actors looking at each other. But some elements seemed to try hard and obvious in what we were trying to achieve defeating the subtle objective of the film we intended to make.

We decided to have a group facetime and discussed that we all liked the format of the tv channel hopping as it gelled all the clips together in a way that visually made sense.