There’s something to be said with pushing your creation out into the world before it’s “finished”. I’ve been sitting on a mountain of raw video clips from this year’s trips to Mt. Blanc and the Grand Canyon, waiting for the “best” time to sit down and edit them together.
My original intention was to do a series of four video clips focused on the Mt. Blanc trip and release them in series. Instead of that I made a 60 second clip for my previous employer from my footage which won a video contest and landed me a trip to Los Angeles for a week. With that small victory the wind came out of the sails and the 4 part series was abandoned. I had already rough-cut two clips and nearly finished a third. For some reason though, I hung up the spurs and the project sat idle, awaiting a “good time to work on it”.
Months elapsed and the truth became evident — there was never going to be a “good time to work” on my project. Tinkering never got things finished. And what is “finished” anyway?
With that realization I committed to complete my edit of the fourth video and release it ahead of the first three — Star-Wars style. Although this was in direct opposition to what I thought I wanted to do; following through with it has actually released the huge creative block I was having with the project in its entirety.
I can’t be too hard on myself after all, I’m new at this — it takes a bit of time for my skills to ascend to the level of my ambitions, but I know undoubtedly that inch by inch I’ll get there. But, like any ascent, it has to start with a first step.
So here we go, without further ado, video 4 of (possibly) 4 in a series from a mountaineering trip with my friend Marc to Chamonix and Mt. Blanc. Enjoy!
Video & Edits: Wes / @the_cxo
Music: “Sans Sucre” by @bitpakkit www.soundcloud.com/bitpakkit
