I had a lot of fun collaborating with Walker and Dean for our blender video project. This was my first time meeting and talking with either of them and they are both delightful people.
We took a lot of time to brainstorm our story idea which was a very collaborative process. Walker especially was a good editor. I had a lot of ideas but he was good at noticing when a line or story point wasn’t quite right and needed work, which was very helpful.
We had trouble getting past or original idea of having it all be a dream. In the end, though, I think we simplified our story in a way that made it make more sense.
It was really great seeing how Dean’s creative mind worked. He had a lot of ideas off the bat of the tone of our video. He brought the element of unsettling horror to our movie. He had a lot of ideas of how to translate that into lighting and different types of shots. He said editing was his favorite part of the process, which he did a great job at, but I think he’s underselling his abilities as a videographer. He had a strong vision for how he wanted to shoot each shot and what the lighting needed to be. He had a lot of nervous energy about him but I could tell it was from wanting everything to be perfect.
We all had fun building our set and finding outfits for our characters. Walker did a little bit of voiceover work for the event announcer in our movie.
Overall, the project was a lot of work and involved a lot of planning, but it was a really great experience. I’ve never put together a video like this before and I learned a lot from it. And I really enjoyed seeing everyone else’s videos as well. It was also a great way to get to know some visual media students and have a project that played to their strengths. I also tend to freeze up when coming up with ideas out of the blue, so it was really freeing to have our three sticky notes. It felt like the story wrote itself and we were just there to facilitate it.