Since 2019, I started creating annual projects for me in order to keep my creative juices flowing. In 2019, I created a video titled, “I Recorded One Second of Every Day of 2019” where, as the title explains, I recorded one second of every day of 2019 and edited it together into a video.
In 2020, my project was “A Photo A Day” where I share one photo every day on Instagram and Facebook. These photos are actually not available to the public since it’s shared on my personal accounts, but I’m thinking of ways to have it out to the public.
In 2021, I tried to do A Blog Post A Week over on Medium. Unfortunately, I only got up to Week 44 as I stopped the project early. As I had less free time due to work, holiday plans taking over, and spending a lot of my free time working out to lose weight, I just didn’t have time to make posts. Honestly, I was also really lazy with it but the posts are still available for you to look through and see what I wrote about.
Now for 2022, I wanted to revisit my second a day project from 2019, but I wanted to put a little twist to it. First, I wanted to make each day longer than a second. While a second forces me to think more on what to record, it honestly isn’t enough time to try different things and showcase more of what’s going on in my day. Second, I wanted to implement in camera transitions. The first video I tried these transitions was my trip to California video from 2019. I liked how it turned out and wanted to see if I can implement it in other projects. And third, I wanted to separate out the project into months and keep each video little under five minutes. I made this decision after editing out the January 2022 video and seeing it had been a little over five minutes. If a 31 day month will be this long, I’m sure I can keep it under this time.
So after recording and editing out January, there are a few things I want to look back on. I enjoyed seeing the random clips I recorded for this video, more specifically, seeing our little staycation in Chicago and dinner with our friend we hadn’t seen in two years, . My favorite transitions have been the whip up/down/left/right trainsion. It just seems more satisfying than covering the camera or even the strafe blocking transitions.
As of right now, it is halfway through the month of February and honestly, there are some things I want to change with how I record these clips. I might not be able to do it all this month, but I want to try the remaining month. First, I want to plan my shots more. A lot of times, I just kind of wing my clips and having better planned shots would be better. This would make my clips better and the transitions would look cleaner too. Next, I want to record shorter clips. There were a few clips I recorded that were super long and makes the video boring to watch. I hope to make each clip around 10 seconds long unless there’s something cool happening within the shot. This will help keep my video to stay under 5 minutes and be entertaining. Most importantly, I need to remember actually recording these clips when I go out. I will tell you, there have been days in the month of February that I forgot to record like when I was at the mall. I end up just recording a random clip at home which ended up looking really boring.
After watching my January 2022 in Five Minutes, what would you do to change it? Was there anything you liked or disliked about it? I’d love to know so I can make these better. Thank you again for taking the time to read by post and I’ll see you in the next one.
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