"Rainydayz179;14793873" wrote:
Thanks guys. Unfortunately there isn't much room to expand the basement because the house is basically surrounded by water! What I ended up doing was having her go as close to the wall as possible and taking the standing shots and then into the middle of the room for the floor shots and keeping the floor or wall out of the picture so there isn't the seam where they meet. They came out pretty good and I don't think I need to edit them. My problem now is the 6 shots that I took basically tell the story I want to tell for the chapter with one more I need to take next time it's night and she can go upstairs. I've got to think of a way to make it appear like time has passed while she was wallowing in self pity in the darkness. Like 4 years?
Ah - I have a little pond upstairs so I feel your pain. I ended up in the sub-basement thought without any issues from the water, but I bet a pools are different since they take up the full basement height.
As for making time pass....alternate the shots with completely black screenshots - so they look like snapshots between the darkness? You probably can't show what's going on up above? I supposed exterior house shots might work to show what's going on up above without spoiling what's happening with the family - especially if you get the autumn and winter mods to alternate seasons... I guess basically I'm recommending that you intersperse those 6 shots with "time passing" shots. Another option would be to add headers to each picture to show the time. They do that in books often with chapter headers. "Three months later." If you're writing around those six shots that might work better. If it's wordless then the images would probably work best.
There's probably other ways to show time passing I'm not thinking of but it's late and I should be asleep.
Oh - And I have an heir! And it's not a multiple! A single baby! Woot!
