Being asked to help out with any project gives us an opportunity to learn and enhance that what we already know as well as help uncover a way for refinement in our approach and process. I personally think this is the way to move forward and avoid stagnation as a creative.
Here’s a real recent world example; Walker and I were asked to help edit a video for the daughter of Wiñay Taki’s founding member Rene Franco Salas. We happily jumped in and approached the project with the thought that we were going to be working through the day and trying to put a video together like we normally would. We were surprised to find out that his daughter (and her 2 classmates) had already shot all the footage and even had a rough shot list (with timecodes!) in place. Which left Walker and myself available to focus strictly on the timeline, titles, images and the lot.
Her and her group’s organization was a complete surprise (and a separate blog post) but also gave way for me to identify a need and refinement for us as a team. I spoke with Walker and discussed the option of being able to streamline the process for EVERY video project that we produce as we move ahead. That was synthesized into something like this:
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