learning

I really enjoy working with video. Over the past Summer I actually had a super sweet job working with making a series of short videos generally about how to live sustainably in St. Johns (it was kind of the best job ever). The videos were for a website that a lady named Kim Todd had been dreaming about creating for years, and had now finally been able to realize. I was working with three other people, we travelled around St. John's and surrounding areas interviewing local businesses, farms, gardens, etc, meeting all kinds of really cool people and learning a tonne about sustainability as well as St. Johns. I also learned a lot about video-making. For each video there would be one or two people assigned to film, one person to record sound, and one or two people to conduct the interview. I learned to use all of the sound and video equipment, how to work with a 'crew' of sorts, and I even got to make a few animations to throw into the videos! I could talk about the whole experience for hours, it was awesome. The website is called thegreenrock.ca , the site isn't fully launched yet, but the videos are scheduled to be released throughout the fall.

Another awesome experience I had working with video was for the video project we had last year in intro. Joe and I collaborated for the project because we had already come up with an idea for a video that we were both super excited about, so when the video project rolled around we decided it was a perfect opportunity to put the idea into action. Joe's friend's band let us use one of their songs as the soundtrack to the video, its actually a really cool song, and I believe it assisted in creating the mood and overall feeling that we were trying to accomplish. We included animation in the process as well, so trying to fit this entire idea into the span of the two weeks we had to work on the project was pretty crazy.

This was our final product:

I really enjoyed making this video, and I'm really glad we worked together on it. Our ideas and views on certain aspects were sometimes completely alligned, often quite different, but always found a way to work together harmoniously. I'm super happy with how it turned out.

Now, to come up with an idea for this video project...