After spending my entire summer away from cities and kind of in the mountains
and camping a lot, it's pretty refreshing actually to stay here for the night.
Let me try and show you without completely messing up this set up.
It's officially the last week of summer, I'm in Seattle, Washington right now and I'm so stoked
because I'm finally done with my first ever short film. Sometimes the only way
to learn to do something, is to just jump in head first even when you don't know
what you're doing, and figure it out as you go.
Oh is it rolling? Oops.
Do I have to look at the camera? No. Okay
Do I look at you or the camera?
So tell me do I look at the camera or look at you?
Can I interview you now?
There was so much about this summer that I had no idea how to do until I just
jumped in and started doing it. Interviewing people was completely new
to me, that's something I've never done and I didn't really even realize how big
of a skill interviewing is. You have to think so much about questions to ask
that fit your your story line and the plot of your video but at the same time
you want it to feel natural and kind of let it flow as a natural conversation
So interviewing was way harder than I thought it would be, and then having all
of these interviews from multiple people and trying to keep those cohesive while
telling a story about my summer and my journey. It was way more challenging than
I ever thought it would be.
Now that it's done with I'm extremely proud of what I made and there's also a
lot wrong with what I made and a lot of things that looking back I would do
differently if I could do it again and that's just part of the learning process
and part of the growing process, and that's kind of what I love so much about
filmmaking, and that's what's so great about life in general. We want to
reach this end goal that we have in our minds but that's that's not the fun part!
The fun part is this journey that we're on and and growing these skills and
learning to do new things so that was something I had to remind myself all
summer long. To just stop and take it all in, because I was learning, I was
growing, and I was on an adventure that I may never get to do again. It was a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me.
I think that's just so key to remember and something I had to be reminding
myself all summer long is that it's not about this end product, it's about
enjoying every step along the way. So if you're working on building towards some
goal or creating some project or something just don't forget to stop and
enjoy every second of it because at the end of the day, that's the part of it
that's the most fun, that's what keeps us coming back wanting more. So thanks for
following along if you've been watching some of these updates for the Creator
Series project. I can't wait to share this film with you! Thanks for
watching, I'll keep you posted once I know more. I guess I'll see you next time