Final Video Overview

I decided I would do a brief overview of all the key scenes used throughout our video, their intended purpose and a few comments about them, as well as a few little tweaks I would have liked to have made, in hindsight.

01 - The beginning of the journey - we wanted to show the mundane elements of every day life in the beginning of the video, and sterile, cold repetitive nature that is very present in city lifestyle. Power lines, traffic lights, train tracks are all very indicative of these themes.

02 - On the train, looking bored with life/everything in general, distracted by the nagging of a cellphone. These are the sort of moments we want to encourage people to fit spontaneous creativity into later on in the video!

03 & 04 - more shots of my journey. I would have liked to have had a busier shot for 03, but we hadn't quite figured out the best ways to get shots of crowds and also be able to not overstep peoples privacy. Hence the shot of legs walking beforehand. For 04, this was shot from my point of view - the walking was very in-time with the music track so we decided this shakiness was acceptable. It's sort of a matter of personal opinion though. Some people liked it, while others might think it was a little too much.

05 - this was one of the later scenes we shot to make the beginning storyline stronger. By having movement of moving forward as we walked we managed to get footage of crowds while not focusing explicitly on anyone and blatantly invading their privacy.

06 - bus scene -  we used depth of field to take focus off people in the background, I really tried to portray frustration with the every day situation/life in my expression here lol, it was one of my favorite scenes from this part of the video and fun to film. :P

07 & 08 - the school/uni part of the every day grind. the monotony of study, books, assignments, and everything that puts me to sleep at the mere thought. Adding in these little scenes after our critique session make the point we were trying to make more clear - spontaneous moments of creativity throughout your day are like a little paradise.

09 - traffic b-roll shot showing more city busyness, filmed at rush hour.

10 - again the distraction of a cellphone, this time exaggerated in a rather blatant manner on cuba street with a time lapse shot. My head isn't even shown in this, the focus is entirely on the phone. Basically trapped in the noise of social media, within an even gloomier busy reality.

11 - A B-Roll shot of midnight cafe with it's colorful lights indicating the next half of the video where we introduce the creativity. We quickly list the challenge: 15 minutes a day, 15 days, any creativity goes!

12 - having a daily coffee... I decide to add in my daily creative challenge and begin doodling on the napkin! :)

13 - B-roll of midnight cafe. The eclectic colors and textures really evoke a creative mood so it was a good setting for the beginning of this part of our video.

14 - A close up of the drawing on the napkin - I wanted this scene to last like 1 second longer to see more of the image but we had to trim to fit in the earlier text clip sadly. This was due to editing the timing/audio/scenes for later on in the video already and we would mess up that timing if we shifted things along. :P

15, 16 & 17 - The interview scene with Caela - We wanted to show an insight into the creative world of someone who had done the challenge, we showed several shots of her hard at work, and several of the stuff she has created. The editing of these was done to be in time to the music to make the flow of cuts more natural.

18 - We switch to a scene of me drawing a mural, expressing my creativity out and about on the city, throughout my day.

19 - Photography is also one of the creative avenues we wanted to show, so we have me out on a quick photo shooting spree on my way home.

20 - this shot is what I am seeing through my camera lens, a picturesque sort of scene with the moon in the background, the shift of focus is meant to represent that of a cameras lens adjusting.

21 - My journey home, satisfied having included this spontaneous creativity into my day. :)

22 - The closing scene is of city lights, but seen through a more 'creative' lens in a literal and metaphorical sense. We have added more creativity into the environment around us and it makes your outlook on life in general less one of gloom and overwhelming busyness and one where you think - I can actually still be creative and I choose to have that present in my life. :) I finish on our call to action here: "15 minutes, 15 days, endless ways to create. Join in on the creative challenge."