Final Essay

When I first heard about the final project I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I decided to base my final project on the contest, SuperUnknown. This is a ski competition in where you film the whole season and then put together a sponsor me video at the end. So I had my idea but I really did not know where to start.

My first step was obviously to start filming the whole ski season. During this time I really studied how professionals got their shots and how to make them look good. I really tried bringing a creative side to skiing in which the way I filmed. Each time I went out to start filming for my final project I took a lot of time before to plan out what I was going to do, and how I envisioned it to look. At this point in the project I was not only filming skiing. I wanted the video to have more. I went out and started filming life style shots to bring a unique vibe to my video. As I was filming through out the season I was constantly thinking how I wanted this video to turn out, and which song I was going to use.

As the season went by I felt like I was accumulating a lot of good shots. I was capturing a lot of new trickes and they were coming out solid. As I was having one of the best season of my life, it was cut short by a fall. I had twisted my ankle so badly that I had gotten bone chips. So this is when I started the creative process of editing my video.

I was new to editing so I had to teach myself everything that was available in the program. This in itself was a creative process. My first step was to get all of my footage onto the computer. This took me several hours just going through the footage and making clips of the shots that were usable. The second step was to start making a time line of all the clips and how I wanted them to be arranged. I knew something was missing and I did not want to start editing until I had a song to edit it to. Once I had the song it all started to seem to come together. This was where a lot of my creativeness came through. I was constantly moving and cutting up clips to make it flow better and go to the beat of the song. I was never happy with how it came out. I was always in the library working hard trying to make the video how I intended it to be. Finally the timeline was done. I was super pumped on how it came out and I was very proud of it. After all this I knew something was missing. I decided to have a quick intro and a longer outro. I also decided to put my season ending fall at the very end to put in exclamation point on the video.

This project was a very helpful exercise of the creative process. I worked very hard and long on this project in which I am very proud of. I had to constantly think of new ideas and ways to make this video come out how I wanted it to. This video would not have been possible if I did not use creative process.