I'm going a little bonkers at this point. Not one but two of my initial ideas came to nothing. One teacher I hoped to interview respectfully declined on account of the awful tragedies which befell her recently. Then, my idea to interview Peter Shank about one of his projects also fell short when I discovered that he felt unready to share the details, as the project was still in its infancy. Obviously, I don't blame either person; they are both kind people who declined for good reasons. I merely lament the fickle fancies of fate which forced me to adopt a third idea at the last minute. Fortunately, this final idea worked out surprisingly well. I decided to produce a promotional video for the Ladue Lexus Eco Challenge Team, which I am a part of. If you're curious about what the heck Lexus Eco Challenge is (after all, while would a car company care about the environment?) then look no further than my videos page. Anyway, that presented a new challenge, for I had to film the team's activities in real time as they moved around, so I didn't have the usual luxury of setting up a tripod and carefully designing shots. I must say, that was a lot of fun. I had problems with camera shake, but the shaking wasn't terrible, and I got a lot of B-roll which appeared uniquely organic on account of how candid the shots were. It was very funny to go through the footage afterward, and see recordings from where I was rolling but not focusing on anything in particular, which produced trippy, psychadelic footage. Ultimately, I ended up having to redo some B-roll of the soil erosion outside the school because my original footage was just too shaky. Because I had a time crunch, I filmed this second B-roll just half an hour before finishing the project. Below, I've attached a photo which I view as especially notorious because it represents a shot that I forgot to replicate when I went out to reshoot footage. As such, I had to run out to get the shot pictured below (which is then a third attempt) and returned with only twenty minutes left to finish. Anyway, I have to say that I messed up terribly when I went to interview the people in Lexus Eco Challenge. That day, I did four interviews: I straight-up forgot to record one, another didn't have any sound because I forgot to turn on the microphone, a third was out of focus and had awful lighting, and the fourth was the only good one. I think I just got nervous at the time, and so made a lot of stupid mistakes. I've got to remembers to chill out more next time. Fortunately, I was able to redo the third, out-of-focus one, leaving me with two good interviews to use for my video. My sincerest apologies to the two people who were kind enough to sit for an interview, but whose words are lost forever on account of my errors. On the bright side, I finally succeeded in producing a little promo video, which is, in my option, pretty good for something I whipped up in one week. On the other hand, the whole last week thing is probably indicative of deeper problems, but I like to think that these deeper problems are not today's problems: rather, they are next month's problems.
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