The hardest part of this video for me was definitely coming up with a video idea. My first idea was to do it on my dog Brandi, who’s blind but that didn’t work out because I couldn’t take her for a walk and film me walking her at the same time. My second idea was to make banana bread, but I had the same issue when I was trying to mix ingredients in the bowl because I couldn’t hold the bowl, mix them, and fill at the same time.

I often go for walks with my best friend Laney and she commented that I should take pictures for her because she never has enough pictures to post. And I haven’t had anything to take pictures of for weeks, so I agreed. And about 10 minutes before our walk, I decided that I should do my video on the creative process of making a picture. Laney was nice enough to let me interview her, she doesn’t like being in videos, but she agreed because, “I don’t know anyone in your class, so it doesn’t matter”.

Some background that might be helpful is, in the video Laney mentions a picture where I’m removing the bench. this picture is one where I took a picture of her sitting on a bench and I used Photoshop to get rid of the bench in the background and place her in another picture. The point wat to try to make it look like she was floating. I had never done that before and I also had a video of me editing that picture, but it was too long to keep in this video. I did, however, put the picture, along with a couple of others in the credits.

I don’t think I got nearly enough videos of me taking the pictures I think that was because I didn’t really plan out what I was going to do too much beforehand as I only knew that I was videotaping a couple of minutes before I left. If I were to do this again, I would definitely get more of a variety of videos and angles and such.

I think that I could have done a better job with this video, but with the little time that I did it in, I’m actually really proud of it. it’s super simplistic but in a good way.