May 9, 2005
I delivered the Union Financial video today. Melanie took a look at it and is pleased. Man, it’s great to have that one knocked off my list. The project was good for me to do because it reminded me of how much I like being creative. I had a great time actually doing the work. But it pressed my schedule a bit too much. That led to a bunch of stress.
A financial report is basically a lot of figures compared to a lot of figures and it figures to get pretty boring. So the challenge becomes how can I make all of the data interesting. Well, basically I boiled the data down to the relevant fact that a viewer would want to know. Then I created a graph to show the big mess of data, dimmed it and added the pertinent fact overlaid on the top.
But that only helps the data. Adding pics, with motion, did the trick in between each graph. That was pretty fun actually. I honed my skills with my software a bit and found some new tricks for my bag.
Overall, I was very pleased and apparently so is the bank. All in. All done. Just got to send them the bill. What a relief. Now on to the next thing.
I’ve got about 6 more video projects to go. Man, if I could make a decent living doing that out of my shop! I’d be there in a heartbeat.
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