Originally, we thought we were going to make a modern-day sex education video that could be used in schools and for organizations promoting safe sex rather than abstinence only. That idea evolved into what we actually made, which was less educational and more informative. There is a difference. We wanted to focus on personal experiences, video examples, and voice overs. We touched upon several topics relating to sex and the media, just to show an example of what subjects would be in the longer finished product. The subjects we touched upon include sexual violence, sexual education for children, the glorification and stigmatization of sex in the media, and the use of sexuality in all forms.
Kate and I started by finding videos we wanted to use, spanning from music videos to commercials to movie clips to television shows. We spent about three to four hours just doing this "research" to prepare for the project. Although it was a lot of fun and it hardly felt like research because of that. From there, we decided who to interview. Katie and I interviewed Brenda and Brendan together, and she interviewed Sophia and Tiffany by herself. I also interviewed my mom and sister, but the tape was corrupt so the video quality wasn't good enough to use. This was fine, though, as we felt we had plenty of material to put together a short video. I had my dad record the VO for the beginning.
Once we had all the materials together, we got together to put it all in order in the editing lab. This was done over a few days, sometimes with just Katie and sometimes just me. But mostly we tried to edit when we could both be there since it was a collaborative project. We made decisions together and worked very well as a team. I guess we had already figured this out since we enjoyed working together for the TransCinema event.
We were very happy with the finished product, though didn't anticipate the audience reaction. Everyone seemed to be confused by Brendan's background. We chose this green screen background because Brendan uses this and other similar backgrounds for his show, Scientific Station, on CAT-TV. I guess we didn't realize that people may not know this if they don't watch his show, so we learned a lesson there. We also made some stylistic choices that were criticized, so another lesson learned. I personally still like the editing style and chose it because we wanted to have a fun, light-hearted, quirky video... Though still with a serious message. We will have to be more precise in the future and careful about how to execute this style on future projects.
Overall, I really enjoyed the project and loved working with Kate again. It feels good to have this project done and to feel proud of it.
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