video production

production six

The biggest thing I think I learned from the process of video making is about expectation. I remember hearing / reading somewhere that when you get into making art, often it is because you perceive yourself as having ‘good’ taste — meaning you consume art that is good. However, art is a hard thing to get into I think because making progress or becoming more proficient in it requires you to be bad first — something that is hard to do when the things you are consuming are at a much higher level / have a higher proficiency floor. Something that was mentioned in the reading is how film specifically requires you to adjust your expectations as you go so that the film ends up somewhere in between what you envisioned and what the external circumstances allow (time, software, equipment, etc). That was certainly evident in this project as I started with one idea and kept having to switch directions / change my original idea through the editing process or even go back and re-film.