I know I continuously rave about how fascinating everything I’ve done each day is, but I honestly cant help it- it just gets better and better! On Friday I spent the day with Mike, a motion picture designer and art director. I shadowed him as he went to a team meeting and also went to oversee a rough edit of one of the videos an editor had put together. He provided his own critique to the editor and gave suggestions on where to keep the artistic focus and message as well as how to tweak the edit on certain moments. Later, as I mentioned to him that I loved film, he showed me videos on the filming process and some of the work that a motion picture designer would add to a film. It was shocking to me just how much of a clip or even movie as a whole, is actually animated. We talked about certain elements of film such as color correction, music and timing and watched various videos that showed the importance of each element. After talking for a couple of hours about pretty much everything you can imagine involving film, Mike kindly offered to show me how to animate a gif! Seriously guys- I can not even begin to tell you how excited I was in that moment. Although the process was complex and probably took me ten times the amount of time it would take Mike, we ended up creating a pretty cool little clip. What a fun opportunity!

Evie