There are many people that film and edit videos every day, which I find amazing. This filmmaking project was not the easiest thing in the world. Just figuring out what to film was a bit challenging. I would say that the most challenging thing for me was editing the film. I wanted most of the changes in scenes to go along with the beat of the music. When I made an edit and shortened one clip, it could have thrown everything else off. This was definitely more of the tedious work. The thing that I found easy was transferring the videos from my camera to the computer then to Adobe Premiere Pro. I also found it easy to mess around and make col music in Garage Band.

In this project I learned many things that could easily help me in future assignments. I learned how to run Adobe Premiere Pro, which I can use to edit future videos. With this I learned how to add effects in the videos and include transitions. I learned how to make songs on Garage Band. I also learned how to animate with Adobe Animate which I can use for titles in videos.

My film is just a basic video that does its job of portraying the emotion discontent. It definitely could be improved though. A couple of ways I could have improved it would have been to mess around with Adobe Premiere Pro a little bit more and to have taken more time and looked for more interesting videos. The more time you spend on something, the better you’ll get at it. Though it may not be the best, I believe the film does its job to describe an emotion.

Even though we had a lot of freedom in what we got to film, I believe that one way the professor could improve this assignment would be to give us more guidelines in what to film. If this happened, there would be less chance that you get stuck not knowing what to film. This could allow the project to get done quicker.

One thing that helped inspire me in this project was this article The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t by Steven Johnson of The New York Times Magazine. In this article it talks about how it’s not okay to steal other artists’ songs. This played a factor in me producing my own music with Garage Band.

Overall I really enjoyed this project. I got to experience some filmmaking and even though I did not find it the easiest thing in the world, I really enjoyed when everything came together.