'Untitled' Pre-Production
Scripting, Testing, Writing, and Testing Again
So recently I have been working on a new video project. This is something that I have been really passionate about for a while. I have seen a ton of videos that try to convey meaning and motivation, but most of them fail to make it personal. They can use all the quotes they want, or just re-state words that have already been stated, but my biggest problem is that the best ones are montages. They arent anything original. They don’t have their own voice. I wanted to change that.
This is the first step.
The first thing I had to do for this video was plan it out and really decide what I wanted from it. I wrote down a ton of notes. I had a ton of ideas about what kind of thoughts I wanted in the video, things that I had heard in the past, and things that I have always kept close to heart.
After I had written out the entire script I did a quick recording of it just to make sure that it would sound the way that I wanted it to sound out loud. I knew that I wanted to make the video a voice-over so I recorded this numerous times different ways to play around with it. I decided on a style that I liked, and went with it.
After I had the recording down that I wanted to I had to come up with the story for the video, and the b-roll shots that I wanted to get. I am not going to go into much detail about this, you will have to watch the video! Along with the story ideas, the b-roll list, I also had to decide what kind of mood I wanted the video to be, what colors I wanted to use, and the pace of the edit.
The next step for me is to move onto location and shooting details, and figure out what shots I want exactly. I will be updating the blog with more details as I get further along in the project. I am hoping to have the video finished and out by the end of the month!
Till Next Time Friends,