SD-Card died and we can not reshot due to deadline!
Background
My girlfriend is filming a: Comedic-Compare between a Phone and a Camera, where she has a 3 Minute Challenge ongoing in the video. The 3 Minute Challenge is between her Sidekick: Luna and herself. The Goal for the Challenge shoot a video and take pictures, so that they can be compared to see which device the better choice! My girlfriend came up alone with the script and it's her first video, ever!
Issue:
We filmed the entire video in the summer. The scenes from Jezzy are shot at an artificial lake near us and the scenes from her sidekick are shot at the world famous "Castle of Benrath" aka The Pink Castle in Düsseldorf (Germany). To my surprise, all Scenes my girlfriend filmed in manual mode, turned out amazing! Now, Its 06:31am. We both did not sleep at all and came to the hards reality that her Main-SD-Cards died! Which means that the importants parts where she and her sidekick are doing their quick reviews and several other scenes are all gone! The data is unrecoverable! And even worse, bro. It's winter! We can NOT re-shoot anything!
We honestly require your help to figure out what to do. Certainly there are 2 Options.
Option 1: find a way to keep what she has filmed and find a way to include a reviwe from both girls
Option 2: scrap it and reshoot the scenes at the lake and reshoot the scenes from the castle at the Media Harbour of Düsseldorf.
My girlfriend, Jezzy is just super frustrated right now and just went to demotivated to bed! This is why I am texting you. For the entire day I was try to revise the script and I have even tinkered around with ChatGPT to find a solution. But not even ChatGPT has a clue. Without the reviews, her entire Video falls apart!
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wait so it was filmed during the summer and you still haven't backed up the footage till now?! I'm sorry but if I read that right, that was incredibly dumb. and what do you mean unrecoverable? was the data overwritten with something else? If not, it's most likely recoverable if not by you, by a professional data recovery service. but those are not cheap
the project was started in summer, yes but the client wanted the project in winter. unfortunately our client we have went with us through several itterations, first they said we want to film here, then they said, sorry we dont like it to be filmed there, we rather liked the other loaction etc. this went on for about 2 month. In the end I told my girlfriend, that if that is keeping, on with them, you are in need to scrap it and charge them for your service!
my girlfriend, decided not to do it, then we moved to another apartment and required a bit of. now we return and her part where the review is on died to a harddrive and sd-card failure