Yesterday, I was looking through my old video projects for a class called Media Sketchbook I took three years ago where we had to shoot a video individually each week and show it to the class. It was a pretty intensive 10-weeks but I enjoyed the frantic energy and it made for some really creative projects. The videos were 2-3 minutes but it took a lot of work since we were working pretty much by ourselves.

Anyway, back to my point - I was digging through these video projects because a friend of mine requested that I send her a video. She was the lead in a project titled “Maiden” and after three years, I finally sent her the short.

Naturally, I rewatched the video and was definitely amused by its amateur style (awkward scene cuts, objects being moved by visible strings and me trying to do a British accent). I then remembered that I had filmed a much longer one that added a significant amount of storytelling. Rummaging through my stacks of backup CDs and DVDs, I found the longer cut of “Maiden” and watched it… Bottom line? It definitely needs a lot of post-production work! The film is cut and spliced together fine, thankfully. However, a lot of audio needs to be fixed. Case in point: One of the characters is a talking sandwich-maker and most of the time it is saying, “Blah, blah, blah” with the intention of having the voice be redubbed afterward.

Thinking about the video today, inspiration struck: I spent so much effort on this project three years ago - why not revisit it and fix it up? Of course, it won’t be the greatest film short but at least I’ll give closure to the project and have some fun remembering the spontaneous and hilarious moments during the two-day film shoot.

Hopefully I’ll get around to posting my updates on the “Maiden” project.