I’m embroiled in the post-production of the music video I drected, and I’m really super proud of the look of it. There has always been something about film school movies that has made them very obviously film schooly to me. In their look, presentation, pace, etc.

When I was in Ireland I was focussed on writing, but about twenty of my classmates there were in a music video program that produced videos ranging from very film school-looking to not at all film school looking, and I was really surprised at how good some of them had turned out. I’ve been wondering if I even had that ability, or if something still eluded me about filmmaking, and had I made a vid it would have fallen toward the lame end of the bell curve.

Well I’m looking at this footage I got for my video, which wasn’t mediated through a film school environment and can more or less stand as my debut in the industry, and I think I’ve broken out. I think this looks like a professional music video. There aren’t film school mistakes. There are some mistakes, but they aren’t the kind that green sophomores shooting 16mm for the first time make. My aesthetic decisions actually panned out. It’s sort of surprising in some ways, because, despite the fact that I’m in film school, there have been relatively few benchmarks as to my personal development in the area of visual storytelling. To be sure I’ve taken a lot of classes on it, but the only real test is actually putting it into practice.

Anyway, I feel like I hit a new plateau this weekend, and I just wanted to brag about it. Keep your eyes peeled for the video on this blog and all over the internet. It should drop within a week or so. Blao!