Golf Saving The Day

 This pandemic has been very difficult for all of us in many different ways. Some people lost their job, some people lost family members, and some people just hated being isolated the entire time. During all this chaos it is important to try to find some positives that came out of this. For me, that positive was golf. Golf courses were really the only thing open during this time so I was able so spend majority of my time at the course.

One of the biggest things I took away from this project was the difference between being a media creator and a media consumer. As a consumer, I ingest a lot of content so I feel like I miss a lot of the smaller details that the creator intentionally puts in there. As a creator, I realized how difficult even the seamlessly easy tasks were. Something as simple as picking the background music was surprisingly hard. Trying to make the whole project flow together took a lot of extra time and intense thinking. The little subtleties, that all good projects have, took majority of the time.

Another surprise that I experienced while creating this video was trying to have the same lighting for all of my shots. I took majority of my shots outside and when I put all the videos into imovie, I realized that the lighting was completely different in some shots. This wasn't necessarily my fault it was just that on some shots the sun would be behind the clouds and in some shots it wouldn't. This changing in light really messed up the rhythm and flow of video so I could not end up using some of the shots that I took.

For the actual shots that I took, I tried to use many different shots with many different backgrounds. I wanted to have a different back drop for each of the shots where I was hitting the golf ball. I wanted it to feel like the viewer was moving along the course with me.

Overall, this project gave me a new understanding just how difficult and time intensive it is to make a good quality video. It is really easy to sit back and watch other videos and critique them, but whenever you are the one creating the video it gets a lot harder to see the flaws. As I continued through the editing process I feel like I made progress and was slowly but surely getting better.