ATPI Winter Conference

This year at ATPI Winter Conference Woodsies, Mackenzie, and I were on the video team. The contest was to produce a music video in less than 24 hours. The song was called Harris by The Burning Hotels. The criteria for the contest was to have it turned in on time, to use the whole song, and to not alter the music in any way. However, you could interpret the song any way you would like. Henceforth, Mackenzie, Woodsies, and I went back to the hotel in order to brainstorm. Apparently the lyrics for this song do not exist online, so we really had to pay attention to the words of the song to figure out what it was really about. After listening to it, we decided that it was about change and doing something new but being hesitant to leave behind what you had before. After discovering this, it sounded to us like the stereotypical love story, however, we didn't want to be that "average." The next thing that we did was plan our scenes and when we needed to shoot them. We knew that we would have to shoot the video out of order because we needed to be outside for some of the shots. It needed to be bright outside during this. After completing all of the shooting, we needed to tackle all of the editing. Kenzie was a beautiful angel from God for this. She is so good at sequencing and there is no way Woodsies and I could have finished this project without her. We ended up pulling an all nighter in order to get the video exported and stuff. At about 5:30 in the morning, the computer started screaming at us saying that we couldn't render our video. At this point in time, Kenzie and Woodsies and I started freaking out. However, we called smith and he came and fixed it. In the end we were really proud of what we had accomplished. We did the whole video on our own, and we have a lot of pride in it. However, we are still kind of hacked off at the fact that we didn't win.