Project Trailer

Whew. I did not expect the number of hours I spent working on this to be so high. Could just be my complete lack of experience and difficulty finding information and sources
(I spent at HOURS browsing music after music, video, photos, data, etc...), but I think it mostly had to do with the medium. Video.

I'm an essay writer. It's what I've been doing since my first encounter with the public school system 15 years ago. Essays don't require creativity, just a logical plan of thought laid out before me. Not usually a problem when I know what I'm writing about, no matter how much information I need to condense.

With video however, it's not just a story to read or hear, it's also a story to see. Putting things together in a way that makes sense in this manner took me days.

I'd been thinking about where I wanted to go with this, how I wanted the story to start, which story I wanted to tell since last week. This week, on Wednesday, I started working. Late nights turned into early mornings with little sleep, Thursday's class making me paranoid about the quality of my product. This isn't something I can just piece together in a logical formation, but I need to make a kind of "quilt" from multiple sources, making them all say what I want them to say.

It's evident to me from my product that I'm still having trouble with the idea of patch working, but the more I get used to it, the better I should get.
...I say that now.

I know in class, when we watch the trailers, I'm going to constantly be comparing my work to the work of everyone else.
The probable stiffest competition? Derek. Kid's a genius with video.

Today, I spent a solid, continuous 10 hours working on this. The weird part? I never got bored or distracted.

Time to turn it in.
Deep breaths.