CCR Chaos: When Time Travel Fails

 So, I had a vision. A genius idea. A cinematic masterpiece in the making. I was going to do a future me vs. past me conversation, using editing tricks to make it look like I was talking to myself in the same shot, basically cloning myself through the magic of filmmaking. I watched a tutorial on how to do it, felt super confident, and thought, yeah, this is gonna be so cool.

Spoiler alert: It was not cool.

Some shots lined up perfectly, like, for a moment, I really thought I had cracked the code of time travel. But the rest? A disaster. A complete mess. Future me kept cutting off past me at the wrong times, the eye lines weren’t matching, and at one point, it looked like I was having a conversation with the ghost of myself instead of an actual person. It was bad. Like laughably bad. 

At that point, I had two choices: spend hours trying to fix it or accept defeat and refilm. Considering the fact that I had no time left by this point to find a way to fix it, I decided to just redo it in the easiest way possible, separating the shots instead of forcing them into the same frame.  In other words filming again.. Is it a little more boring? Yes. But did it work? Also yes. And at this point, that’s all that mattered. I used two parts of my room that pointed at each other so it looked like both past and future me were talking to each other. Here is how it looked:

- Don't mind the messy room and my friend!

Editing was very easy after that. I threw in some background music to make it feel less bland, cut out unnecessary parts and boom, done. Simple, effective, and actually watchable.