Video Work

Lately much of my life has been consumed by the work I've been doing on a video project for my final journalism class.

The first photo is of the editing software as I work on it. It has consumed basically 2 days in the past week in which I spend 5 or more hours straight in a computer lab working. So that's at least 10 hours total in a week. This isn't counting the time I spent actually videotaping the subject.

The subject was a Ferrier (one who shoes horses) and the class that he has to teach others to be Ferriers.

It was shot totally in video although I spent a good portion shooting photos just to do it. The nice thing is that it definitely got me interested in working in video. However, I still don't have the artistic eye for shooting video that I do for photo. Photo is about waiting for moments and then catching them in a single frame. This is not as much the case for video.

The difference is that you have to actually set up the camera or hold it and find moments and grab them as they happen. Then the process of editing out the crap and pulling out the good is the tedious part. Yeah, separating the wheat from the chaff as they say.

The post production process of video is quite tedious in my opinion. The first few times seem to fraught with confusion and searching for certain important settings and "rendering" options (I had to render everything like 200 times).


Of course I took a good deal of photos to have singles for myself and for the people at the shop. You don't usually give your subjects a gift or anything, but this was a class project and the owner of the school really didn't get anything from it.

What I got was a good feature with some neat little moments. It proves that I can make a video, not perfectly, but a video nonetheless.

If I can I'm going to host it somewhere so I can actually show it here.