It's story time! As I edited our video for story time, I came to realize three things:
1. To create a level of intimacy in your film, your "actors" must be filmed up close.
2. To get a sincere and genuine response from your "actors" they must be willing to improvise the answers to your questions.
3. Embrace failure.
The last point was the hardest for me to do. As editor of the film, together with Carolina and Andrea, we spent the entire class editing and stayed up until 3 am that day to upload the video on to YouTube.
When we woke up on Friday, the upload had failed. We had failed. Despite having stayed up late, we didn't manage to have the video up and running by Friday.
However, as Mr. Topf told us in class today, success is linked with failure. If one wishes to truly succeed, they must we willing to fail.
By looking at the bright side, we were able to show the video to the rest of the innovators before putting the movie out there for everyone else to see. We were able to receive their feedback and improve upon the feedback to make the movie even better. And we were able to realize that our failure was a result of a lack of planning and time management.
If the process of gathering footage would have been done correctly and efficiently, the editing could have begun a lot earlier and thus, been finished a lot earlier. Plus, if we had a clear plan of what we wanted the film to look like, the process of editing wouldn't have been such a hassle.
Nonetheless, I think it is fair to say that we learned from the mistakes we made; we learned through failure.
1. To create a level of intimacy in your film, your "actors" must be filmed up close.
2. To get a sincere and genuine response from your "actors" they must be willing to improvise the answers to your questions.
3. Embrace failure.
The last point was the hardest for me to do. As editor of the film, together with Carolina and Andrea, we spent the entire class editing and stayed up until 3 am that day to upload the video on to YouTube.
When we woke up on Friday, the upload had failed. We had failed. Despite having stayed up late, we didn't manage to have the video up and running by Friday.
However, as Mr. Topf told us in class today, success is linked with failure. If one wishes to truly succeed, they must we willing to fail.
By looking at the bright side, we were able to show the video to the rest of the innovators before putting the movie out there for everyone else to see. We were able to receive their feedback and improve upon the feedback to make the movie even better. And we were able to realize that our failure was a result of a lack of planning and time management.
If the process of gathering footage would have been done correctly and efficiently, the editing could have begun a lot earlier and thus, been finished a lot earlier. Plus, if we had a clear plan of what we wanted the film to look like, the process of editing wouldn't have been such a hassle.
Nonetheless, I think it is fair to say that we learned from the mistakes we made; we learned through failure.