Creativity ... at my beck and call??

Although I love my job and all the creativity that comes along with it, there are times when I feel stuck. Especially with wedding video's. Sure there's a formula, much like a wedding day it's self, but I don't want every video looking the exact same everytime. Here's where I run into problems. I get all of the footage onto my computer, make a new project in my editing program, download all of the music I think I am going to use, import all of the photo's I am going to use and then ... I hit a wall. Not all of the time but most of the time.

You know when you had to write essays in school and the first paragraph was ALWAYS the hardest? It's pretty much the same thing. Only I hit the first paragraph wall almost every new part of the video .... hmmm let's see if I can explain better. So you have "the getting ready" part of the video. Start it off with some establishing shots of where they are, maybe a shot of the bouquets, dresses etc. etc. Then you go into the people laughing and getting ready. So I am editing along and now it's time to transition to the "ceremony" part of the video. Looking at my footage .. this shot, or that one? There's that damn wall again!!

This doesn't happen with every video but I am so obsessed with making it the best video to my abilities that I stress over every detail and convince myself that the bride and groom are going to hate it. Self destructive much? I'm working on it.

Sometimes if I feel like I need some inspiration I'll go onto other videographers websites and see what they're doing. This is sometimes a good thing and sometimes a bad thing. It's a good thing when I feel like our skills are more or less on the same level. So I enjoy their video, steal some good idea's if I see any and I'm back to the races. It's a bad thing when they have amazing crazy expensive equipment accompanied by 20 plus years of experience and make my video's look like I let my cat edit them together.

No worries after a minor emotional breakdown, my husband talks me off a ledge and I tell myself that it's a good thing to always be striving to do better.

I swear I am not as dramatic as I seem ... *fingers crossed behind back*

Fist pumps to my husby for putting up with the oh so dramatics that come along with me and my creativity struggles :)

Erica xox