My Movie
Every day last week, I filmed a movie.
Why?
No reason. I made a vague promise to myself at the start of 2019 to take more photos. Get better at photography. That sort of stuff. Never did anything. One day I picked up my old Sony NEX and recorded a few shots and got a kick out of it. Once I finally found the USB cord, I uploaded to iMove, and I was off.
How does it work?
My rules are simple:
- Must include more than 2 shots
- Must be longer than 5 seconds.
- No portrait mode!
- Don’t spend longer than 10 minutes editing in iMovie.
- After 10 minutes, share it to youtube
- Never look at it again.
The videos are titled with the date. eg. April 23. The moving images are shot, captured and encoded within the same day. Like a fish, better not leave it sitting in the ice bucket for too long. Get it on a plate. The videos are shared to my account, but are unlisted.
So, Success?
These clips ain’t winning any awards. But I had fun. And I filmed something every day! The simple fact that I spent time invested in editing them, naturally raises their value for me.
Learn anything?
- Something is better than nothing.
- iPhone camera is pretty damn powerful. I switched from a Sony NEX-5N after a few days, mainly for convenience, but I didn’t really notice a huge drop in picture quality.
- I have no idea how to edit. I’m sure there’s a lot of small and technical things I could learn to improve my craft.
- iMovie is really good. Consumer software at its best. Perfect for beginners and I never felt like it was talking down to me.
- You need to shoot way more. Things that you think look interesting look dull on the screen and vice versa.
- After some reflection, I need to do more things worth filming!