BECAUSE I’M ON TIME THIS WEEK! WOOOOOOO YEAH!!

Just replace “Kuzco” with “Haley” and that’s basically how I feel right now. Except, you know, with less throwing old guys out of windows.

Video week was almost as frustrating as it was educational, which means it was REALLY STINKING EDUCATIONAL. I am ready to punch several Microsoft developers in the everything, but that’s beside the point. I got to do a lot of cool stuff this week and improved on not only my video editing capabilities, but my appreciation of films and TV in general.

I took a shot at humor with my own take on a 5-Second Film…

FINALLY got around to creating my very own ds106 assignment:

Revisited a favorite scene from Supernatural as a silent era film:

And babbled about some of my most-loved movie scenes:

Again, I found that good writing and proper time management STILL make the most difference to a project no matter what you’re doing, no matter what kind of medium you’re creating in and no matter how long or short your final product. I also realized that people tend to get lost in video and lose sight of what makes a really good storyreally good,which, again, comes down to good writing and good planning. Because there’s so much going on in a video—sound effects, visuals, music, dialogue—it’s easy to get bogged down in all of that and  miss the fact that the basic components of effective storytelling are always the same.

The other thing I’ve  noticed is that I feel like my blog is getting… kinda boring. In an effort to be explicit about my creative process and clearly detail everything I’m doing to produce my work, my writeups are becoming more and more informative and school-essay-sounding and less about my personal voice. That’s not good, and it’s not what I want for this blog, so in the few weeks we have left I’ll try to strike a better balance between informative and personable when I write.