Making a cute little elephant :)

 Okay so setting the scene back up, Our group met back up at Panera to finalize an edit.

My glorious partners Zach and Aneesa were on the grind, working on a first draft of an edit the day before.

When we arrived, Zach and Nico got to work on laying out the new B-roll we had just captured, while I, the bumbling idiot, had to drive back home to pick up the laptop i forgot.

Once I finally got back, I was able to finally do what makes me happy, animating!!

Was it a smart use of my time to spend 3 hours rotating an elephant?? maybe not, but it brought me joy so I think that counts for something. After this, I animated the actual sequence, which would be the beginning of our documentary. In it, we explain the Hindu description of faith, where 3 blind men all feel an elephant, yet none of them will ever be able to truely understand what it is they are feeling. I thought this would be a good opener for the documentary because it is something that grabbed my attention during the research, and I thought it would do a good job of establishing a tone for the doc.

After doing that I'm not sure if there was something in the air or if I was genuinely just burnt out, but I proceeded to work on the graphics package, including lower thirds, a title, and end credits, but they all just ended up turning kind of bad!

However, life goes on, and my AP gov teacher gave us a free period the next morning, so it was back to the grind for me! I think coming back at it with a fresh mind and body actually helped me, because within that hour I was able to animate a completely new graphics package, from scratch, that I liked A LOTT better than the previous one! Once those were done I sent them over to master editor Zach, where I would patiently wait for the final product.

This came later that night, and It was low-key a BANGER!! and you can watch it here!