My First Short Video
While Iris was playing Baby Guardian Battle, I recorded a clip on my phone. That time she made it all the way through level 8.
I wanted to cut it into a short video and post it on social media overseas.
The original video was long, and level 9 came after that. She didn't clear level 9, so I left it out. I cut from the start of level 8 to the moment she cleared it. It came to exactly 20 seconds.
Since it was going overseas, the captions were in English. It opens with one line: I made this little game for my daughter. It ends with what she shouted when she cleared the level.
When I watched the cut, I saw a pair of shoes in the frame with a brand logo on them, on screen for less than a second. The first time, I blurred a whole strip. Too ugly. I switched to a circle, but it was too big. I made it a little smaller, and one of the stripes wasn't covered. After several tries, it covered just those three stripes.
The video was recorded in a restaurant, and it was noisy. When she cleared the level she shouted, "Success! Level 9!" I really wanted that line in the video.
I wanted to ask her to say it again, so I could record a clean take.
She knew I was recording, and it came out not natural at all. I recorded it more than ten times. It only got worse.
In the end I used the original audio and removed as much of the background noise as I could. The background music was made with AI, and it drops down for the two seconds she speaks.
At the end of the video I put the game's name. There are many games with the same name, so I added the icons from both stores too. You can recognize it by the icon. The name had to be smaller than her line. It couldn't steal her moment.
Right after she spoke, the video ended, so there was no time to read the ending. I added two more seconds, making it 22.
When it was done, I showed it to Iris.
She was taking a nap. Half asleep, she said just one thing: "Nice music."
Then she fell back asleep.