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:) Krista
(aka Wet Watermelon)
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For some reason I got the itch to try and submit footage to the Life in a Day documentary that Ridley Scott is Producing. I love Ridley Scott's stuff, and it seemed easy enough. Well, first, I filmed the wrong day, and on the right day I had to use the "bad" camera because I had used all the batteries for the "good" camera the day before. It took me several days just to find out that there was NO WAY I would be able to edit all the footage I had into different files or bigger chunks. So I decided to submit it completely raw, as they suggested.
Then came the nightmare of uploading. There were several video files that literally took 45 minutes to upload just to Youtube...and THEN the submission process for the film was such that it required me to submit each and every little bit I had uploaded separately. All 45 videos. I had to fill in my name, my email, my country twice, my language twice, the various places, emotions and people and weather conditions...For Each And EVERY Video submission. Not only that, but when I went to upload all my footage, they wouldn't let me find part ONE! I had to start at part FOURTEEN! They gave us a week to do it. I don't even work right now, and I couldn't get in all my footage by the deadline!
I have to say, this experience only made me mildly annoyed with the production team of Life in a Day. What made me absolutely FURIOUS was my filming equipment. There are SO many dreams I want to follow, including being a film maker. I really wish I had the resources to buy an HD camera (like they wanted) with a clip-on mic and really great, solid, non-buggy editing equipment...and an external hard drive to keep all my movies on...and while I'm at it, let's throw in ANOTHER contest or event like this one so that I can blow them away with a killer submission. One that's compelling, moving and COMPLETE!
Well, I'll have to settle for patting myself on the back for trying, even with my jacked-up submission. The story of the day we filmed was basically that we are so far in debt that we have trouble paying to put gas in our car, but we laugh and make music thru all of our troubles, and Will's going back to school soon, so there's hope. I find it very ironic that our current financial situation has prevented me from obtaining the very equipment that would have made it more likely that the Life in a Day producers would have seen it. IT was a great story about average American financial troubles...and because of those financial troubles, they will probably never see it.
Whine, whine, whine and complain!
Really, if it meant enough to me, I would find a way to pay for all the equipment I want. That's what I'm discovering now. If you are truly passionate about succeeding at something, you'll keep going until you achieve it. NOTHING will stop you. That's why I didn't give up. I tried diligently all the way to the deadline to upload and submit whatever videos I could. I had done too much work to just give in. Too much of my life has been wasted and too many opportunities have passed me by because I have given up. Not to be defeated by myself again, this time, I seized the moment and did everything I could.
