I was incredibly busy during POE 2024, so I only managed to participate in one round, Round 2. That round had the theme of “Hobby Lobby,” where we were asked to create a video in a week that showcased characters enjoying a hobby.
I’d had “Life Through a Lens” on my ideas list for a while after it popped up in a Spotify Weekly list for me, and it felt like a perfect match for the theme, using characters that were photographers. I had debated several different video sources as options, as well as going massively multi-source, but I ended up deciding to limit it to three series, largely to make the title pun. The Rule of Thirds is a photography framing technique where you mentally divide the image into thirds, both horizontally and vertically, and then frame your photo so that the object of interest is near one of the four intersection points of the one-third lines.
Scrubbing through the footage for usable scenes took longer than I planned, since I’d only actually watched one of the three (my backlog is deep and only growing), but once I’d managed all of that, the video itself came together pretty quickly.
I never looked at the results of the round judging, so I don’t really know how well it was received, but a couple people did mention to me that they enjoyed it.
Video – Photo Kano, Tada Never Falls In Love, Waiting In the Summer
Audio – Jackson Harris – Life Through a Lens
Completed September 2024
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