Have you ever had a big project that took month? Well, I have and it was hard. We had to pick a person, make questions, write a narrative, make a script, select photos, record a voice over, and so on. Keep reading to find out…

The first step for the video was to turn the interview into a narrative. The narrative had to be like a story so it took about 3-4 days to write it. This was more enjoyable than challenging. After that, we had to write the script, which took me a whole weekend. This was the most challenging part of the video in my opinion, because you would have to time every sentence to 2-6 seconds and I had a pretty long one so it took a lot of time. Also, it was hard because I quoted my interviewee and it was a long quote like “I remember looking out the window and seeing a squirrel, I was afraid because I’ve never seen a squirrel before.” and I had to turn it into SIX words which was impossible so I did “I remember looking out the window…”. Selecting the images was the second hardest part. I had expected to know what I was doing but it turned out I didn’t. Also, WeVideo does have a lot of photos. There are twice as many videos than photos. The voice over was weird. I always messed up somehow.

I learned that it’s sometimes better not to plan because I added a few pictures that weren’t in my plan but it worked so much better because there were a few sentences that didn’t match anything that was on the screen. So, I ended up not using my plan as much as I expected. Also, I learned you needed to search a few times for something to pop up. Another thing, I learned that there aren’t a lot of photos and more videos. This surprised me because wasn’t it harder to take a video than a photo? A video needs people moving, or animation, or a person or machine holding and moving a camera. So why not just take a photo? 

In conclusion it was hard but it paid off in my opinion. Have you ever had a project like this?