Picking up from yesterday –
I had a hard time really seeing in the GoPro, while holding the bottle and opener, while balancing it on my legs.
But I just did the best I could do.
Once I thought I got it, I fairly quickly took everything inside. Then I had to get the footage transferred to my computer and put it in premiere, so I could make it vertical instead of landscape.
(I feel like there should be an option inside of TikTok to do that, but I digress).
Once I had it in landscape, I exported it, and then made a comment video reply to Hank’s TikTok.
Now… I did think it was more ‘zoomed in’, I suppose, than I wanted.
But you could see the initial reaction and what was generally happening with the Coke. I thought perhaps that would be enough.
Very, very quickly I realized it wasn’t enough. A couple people started commenting early on that they wanted to see more of the Coke bottle. I knew they were right.
So, back out I went!
This time, I went on Live so whoever wanted could be a part of it, in real time. (And also, people knew I was working on it, if they were waiting – they could see!)
This time I didn’t use a GoPro. I just shot the bottle from above the water, as we already had the close up. So, hopefully a wide shot was okay from above the water. (I didn’t know any other way to make it work/hold it all/get such a wide angle otherwise [with the tools available to me at the moment].)
So, we all watched the live for multiple minutes, until the Coke bottle had pretty much reached a point of stagnation.
I signed off the live. (Also, don’t worry, I took both bottle caps, so they wouldn’t cut someone’s foot in the pool.) Got my stuff together, and then I went to put it all together in the hot tub (since no one was out).
And this is where I’ll pick up tomorrow!