After 6 months, the “Assassin’s Creed” video is out the (metaphorical) door. I’m also trying to ease up on my use of “finally” in posts, stuff takes however long it takes. 6 months, in this case. I hit my self-imposed deadline of the end of the month, before it drove me crazy.
I’m now at the usual low point of the cycle: Fed up of looking at it until the words make no sense, starting to hate it and doubt it was ever any good, then trying not to look whether anyone’s actually watched it (despite telling myself that I only do this for myself). Now it’s the low of “never doing another one”
Best thing now is to go make something else for a few weeks and reset. Only way to improve is to keep doing it. I over-complicated this one, plus trusting an AI function in Resolve trashed my audio mix. Undoing that took hours.
Writing still remains the hardest part, but that’s just how it’s going to be. I’ve accepted that much. This inside of my head is like the pin-board of a conspiracy theorist, all pictures and red string. Getting that into a linear timelime is always going to be a grind. Using video to go back to the pictures in some form is the most satisfying part, I can covey thoughts that way even if my prose sucks. One supports the other, but in the opposite way than a lot of essayists do. I’ll never do the talk-to-camera-and-add-B-roll version. Match cuts and Kuleshov effect all the way.
Next up is likely to be photography zines. I’ve got one done, but I need to get a couple of rolls of film developed for the other.
