We're all in this together!

Hey all I'm back with another blog post! This time I'm gonna talk about myself and review the quality of the work that I put into our all school video. Now the whole theme of the video was talking about how after the tragedies of last year we would come back stronger and as a united school, one that is all in this together (get what I did there?).  Anyway we filmed one Thursday and edited the footage by Tuesday for a short 90 second video. I had volunteered to do the card dumps throughout the day which was a lot of fun and I will talk more about later. I also stayed after school that Friday to help edit. Overall I spent many hours at school working on this video. I have linked the contest version here and the full version here.

On Thursday we started at 6 AM, but I was excused from band at 8 and I headed straight for the video room. I got there and helped as they finished setting up the computers to receive footage. We got the footage as second hour started and thats where the craziness began. We rushed to get nine computers of footage imported, favorited, and key-worded. This lasted the majority of hour and I got a camera that was on a monopod moving around the gym. I had some very interesting shots, lots of close-ups and artsy shots. We did this same race against time every hour until sixth hour when we had to go set up for the assembly.

I helped to transform the gym from a filming zone to the pep assembly set up. I helped carry the track and then I got set up for band to play in the assembly. The assembly went well and afterwords I went home for the night. The next day I came in as soon as my flute lesson was over to help out with the crunch edit for the contest video. I had changed computers and was editing a different POV of footage. I was told to make a highlight reel of that computer for the entire day and I got to work. I worked for about an hour before we took a break for dinner. After that I worked for another couple of hours before another desert break. Finally I did a little more work before we took a final break and called it a night. Overall I was there from 3 PM to 9:30 PM.

Now let me talk about how I think I did. Overall, I joked around a lot. I feel like I could've done a lot more had I been more on task and focused on my work. I also know that part of my distraction was the fact that I was surrounded by hilarious great people that are my friends. That is to no fault of theirs however I need to learn to better manage myself and my time. So I think throughout the project I could've been more help if I had focused more myself and my energy towards the project and less towards socializing with my friends. So in general I am proud of the work I put into the video and I think I did well.