There are times where I get extremely excited about a paper or a project and I just plow through it over the weekend its explained. I did 90% of my work on my audio video project over the course of a week and it did create that half-fun day-in-the-lab-working academic sensation, it wasn’t a good feeling. I had waited too long to get to action.
In my defense, this stalling wasn’t pure laziness. My interview subject, a transfer student to Hunter, had difficulty with his registration. He did not know whether he would be able to remain in the class and missed a few consecutive days as a result while the office resolved things. This was before we shot video.
I should have worked harder to pull through, but I did not want start doing work out of class when there was a chance that I would have to redo the assignment. I should have worked harder and spent more time working on my movie from the beginning. My working classmates make it look simple but Final Cut is much more complicated than iMovie. I overestimated my skills in the software and by the time I realized what I did wrong it was past the time I needed to do a quality job.
While I regret the way I paced my work, I think I made a reasonably compelling and creatively presented story with the footage I had. If I could go back, I would learn more about the filters and captioning. I would tweak my audio and see if I could find a way to sharpen the video.
I knew that filmmaking, nay art, should never be rushed…so it would be hard to call that an unexpected lesions. And this is not the first time I’ve had tech trouble in the media lab. But my student films went smooth it was interesting to see some of difficulties of working with other people. In the end, it was fun. I can’t wait to make an short documentary again and do it right.
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