Well Lets look at one of my old videos and the slightly better remake I did!

So this blog is a throwback to last year when yours truly was an awkward sophomore (not that I'm any different now honestly just the grown up version) I made a video called Cutting Carrots in which I used the six-shot system to show a story. Now lets fast forward to a few weeks ago and I decided to remake that video for a class project. Now I first had to decide the story I would show in this video and I came up with the idea to make a video about my writing process.

I then looked at my old video and found what kind of shots I had done the first time around that I wanted to replicate. I then storyboarded out the video for shooting that weekend. After I finished the storyboard I set up my filming space. I cleared off all the spaces that would be visible in the shots and made my room look how I thought it would in the video. I then set up a big Ott light in the middle of my room and pointed it at the ceiling in order to light the entire room evenly. Finally it was time to shoot the video and I pulled my mom in to help with some of the harder shots. We filmed the entire video in one day and I spent a couple of hours the next day editing. I still had a little bit to do and once I had identified the song I finalized my edit and turned it in.

Now I like the concept of the video and I loved the story I planned out, but when it came to execution I was really disappointed in myself. I knew that filming myself would prove to be hard in many ways, but I thought that I would have enough skills to at least get some of the easier shots of myself done. when I looked back on my footage I realized that I was either out of focus, or the shot was poorly framed. I then asked my mom to help and after many struggles with focus I got the video shot and done.

I have linked the original video from Sophomore year here, and the one from a few weeks ago here. If any one is curious click on them to watch them, but I personally have some major problems with each video. I think that I could've done better and maybe later I will get another chance to do that, but right now I am gonna stop talking about it and work to improve my skills. I will talk to you guys later with a happier post I hope.