I’ve set myself a challenging project for October. Create 30 short films in 30 days. I’m a stills photographer and shooting and editing video is not my strength AT ALL. I have no idea what I’m doing! I’m a complete beginner. But I’m embracing it and letting go of the anxiety of needing to get everything right and for the final edit to be “perfect”.

I’m really slow. It took me 3 hours to finish this 60-second clip! Seasoned filmmakers and video editors will probably cringe at this poor attempt at filmmaking. I don’t mind. The idea is to combat creative block and just practice something. I haven’t been creative at all lately. The COVID19 lockdown has been difficult and has affected my motivation to pursue anything. I don’t necessarily enjoy video editing and I think I’ll always be average at it. I just want to make something by setting myself a task each day that can force me to use a medium I’m not comfortable with. I haven’t done this before.

In the meantime, I had to google “how to export video for web”. Let’s see if I can come up with something new for the next 29 days. It’s probably going to be mundane. But this is just for me.

Song title by Crowander (www.crowander.com)