The Newest Video

I hate it.

But I don't hate it because it says things I don't care for, not because it's horribly executed, not because I'm Sparky1j. I hate it, because it does something unthinkable. Something horrible. Something I vowed to never do.

Reuse a template.

Fuck!

But seriously, dropping the sarcasm, it eats away at me, and I realized why. It's not so much the material itself, at the end of the day, it's a 3-4 second transition meant to keep the video flowing stylistically, which it does. The reason it frustrates me so much is because, had I planned this out differently, it would've been completely avoidable.

Back at University, for our Documentary studies course, we had to do multiple projects in a team (obviously), and I like to think I wasn't a nuisance in these groups, I've got fond memories of that classroom of people and teachers. However, there was a lot of conversation and structure I didn't feel like bringing along, so for my final, I wrote, directed, edited, and presented the whole thing.

My friend Chris was behind the camera, but that's it, and it's how I've done things for years now. I've come to accept I'm a control freak, the latest video was uploaded at 11pm rather than 9pm, because I re-rendered it after tweaking clips by 1-2 frames so they would cut better.

What I need to accept though, that's editing, and not everything needs the approach I took at college all those years ago.

I like being solo, because my instincts don't get put through a funnel. When deleting multiple paragraphs of a script is better, and I know it's better, I don't need to hold a debate with a fellow creator to convince them it's better.

But collaboration has been a vital, both recently and in the past, and this latest error, is the biggest example of when it should've taken place; it's on me to set that up.

Onward and upward!