Rise & Grind

For this project, my partner Marie and I came up with our concept fairly quickly. However, we did hit some bumps in the road along the way. Originally, instead of me being the "star" of the video, my best friend was going to come in from Long Island to be our actress-- since she acts professionally-- but sadly she had to work last minute on the day that we were scheduled to shoot. Another issue we had was the weather. Since our video was shot predominantly outside, we were hoping for a nice, sunny day. Unfortunately, during the first day that we were supposed to shoot, Mother Nature decided to give us a torrential downpour. Luckily for us, we were able to overcome our obstacles and adjust our storyboard to create the best final product that we were able to!

For the actual filming/editing portion of the project, we split the work fairly evenly. Obviously, since I was on screen, Marie did all of the filming, but we agreed that she would do this even before we knew that I would have to be our actress. I did the editing of the video, including finding our sound effects and soundtrack. I had a vision of what I wanted before we filmed, so sitting down and actually executing my ideas was really exciting for me! For example, both songs in our project are from musician Sam Phillips, who does most of the songs on the TV show Gilmore Girls. Gilmore Girls has been my favorite TV show since I was 12. I always loved the cutesy, upbeat, happy soundtrack they use to transition between scenes and knew right away that I wanted to incorporate them in our project. I think Marie and I did a good job of sharing the work and creating our piece. There was no arguing and no one was doing more work than the other person. We ran everything by each other and made sure the other person approved and we helped each other out where it was needed. And in the end we ended up with a piece that I am proud to share!