Video and Film Production

Besides work for my YouTube channel, I love the technical side of producing video media and how it is applied in huge real world productions and film sets for major movies. I feel as if I've always liked being on the outskirts of art, not exactly meddling directly with the creative process but instead tackling it from a logical perspective. This is why I gravitated to the specifics and process behind how film media is produced rather than the act of producing it.

For me, this hobby has many different aspects, including working with all parts of the film workflow starting with storyboarding all the way through camera operation, editing, and motion graphics. Even though YouTube has become so capitalized in the modern age, I hope this is a hobby I can keep as separate as possible from real work, as I believe that's the only way people can truly tap into the creative process.

Reading

As old fashioned as it is, I've been getting back into reading in my free time. Right now I'm getting through Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton, a recommendation from Breeze (thanks, it's really good!). It's pretty much a memoir of a British woman navigating her love life, friendships, and how her perspective and knowledge on relationships as a whole has been slowly changed by decades of connection and heartbreak. (This isn't the book in the photo)

Design

Design is another one of my hobbies that started out as creative and then turned strangely logical. I primarily focus on UX design, which is designing interfaces that people directly interact with. Before getting into it, I had no idea that 90% of my time wouldn't even be spent designing - it would be spent asking myself and others questions that would help hone in a design to be as intuitive, functional, and efficient as possible.

In the past, I was interested in creative poster design, which I thought had very interesting parallels and differences to photography. For one, it starts with the aspect ratio and composition, which determine how you place elements in the final design. Color and hierarchy are also very important, and can serve to draw a viewer's eye to a subject or focal point. I think beginning with photography was a strange and interesting pipeline for understanding how to create more aesthetically pleasing poster designs, although I sadly no longer really have the time to do this nowadays.