Keeping With It

[Tuplica]

Hey!

I'm working on a video for a con (hush hush other than that, I'm so paranoid... ) and it's turning out to be a lot longer process than any other vid I've worked on. I'm used to only spending a week or two on a video with short chunks of time dedicated to it- this is being done in 6 hour+ periods of time for a loooong time (whenever I can until the due date).

I was kind of hoping that if anyone else who has been in these circumstances had some advice for sticking with it instead of just giving up or getting bored and procrastinating until it's too late. It's really hard for me to keep going even though I've got more than half the vid finished.. it's just so exhausting. @_@;

Thanks!

[Zarxrax]

Just keep with it. If it gets to the point where you hate working on it so bad that you dont care if you even make the deadline, then by all means don't push yourself. A silly contest is nothing to get depressed and exhausted over. If you can bear it though, just try to set aside time to work on it, and then make yourself do it. Turn off any distractions. If it gets too exhausting, take a short break and come back later, or even stop for the rest of the day, whatever.
Also before you start on something that you think will take a lot of time to do, consider how you will feel while working on it. I would probably wanna kill myself if I ended up spending more than 60 hours or so working on some slow drama vid... although I do enjoy those occasionally. However I can work on "fun" vids no problem. I've currently got about 100 hours logged onto a video and I'm loving every minute of it, because I'm doing such fun stuff with it.

[godix]

Break it into chunks. I've had videos where I has to say 'today I will get between X and Y point finished' and ignore the fact that X and Y point are only 5 seconds out of a three minute video. This way I felt a sense of accomplishment that I met whatever goal I set out instead of despair than after 20 hous I only have thirty seconds of the video done. After doing that enough I eventually completed it.

OTOH once I completed it I tried to watch it objectively, thought it sucked and deleted it. Perhaps I was being overly harsh but I thought it was obvious that I didn't enjoy the video and forced my way through it. I figured if I as the creator barely enjoy it then how can I expect my audience to?

[CaTaClYsM]

Wanna hear a funny story? No? Good. I worked on an esca vid for a year. Then my HD crapped out on me. Guess where my esca vid went.

A. To heaven
B. To Texas
C. Down the crapper

My point, I work on my vids for about anywhere from 5 mins to 6 hours a day getting next to nothing done. But I NEVER give up. The only time I ever burn out is when my progress gets destroyed and I need to start over. So keep all your important files on a secondary HD. If you're getting frustrated with a vid your working on, (which it sounds like you are) it's even more important to back your stuff up. If you're frustrated it's even more likely you take a break from that vid and something craps out on your comp and you need a format or something and suddenly realize that damned vid you worked so hard on and put yourself through so much pain for is gone. You can get frustrated and walk away a million times but as long as the project file is still there you can start back up anytime you want to.

As far as making deadlines are concerned I don't know. If I had a deadline for a vid and I didn't have much time you've got a judgement call to make. You can work at it and if you arent going to make it in time just forget about the con, or you could half ass it and make sure to get it in.

[bum]

Hey!

I'm working on a video for a con (hush hush other than that, I'm so paranoid... ) and it's turning out to be a lot longer process than any other vid I've worked on. I'm used to only spending a week or two on a video with short chunks of time dedicated to it- this is being done in 6 hour+ periods of time for a loooong time (whenever I can until the due date).

I was kind of hoping that if anyone else who has been in these circumstances had some advice for sticking with it instead of just giving up or getting bored and procrastinating until it's too late. It's really hard for me to keep going even though I've got more than half the vid finished.. it's just so exhausting. @_@;

Thanks!

the best thing to do is to totoaly give up, then go join a bhudist temple and go on a spirit journey to find out why you arent ErMaC and why you ever will be.


or you can pretend that your wife/husband/sex slave llama/mum is saying what im about to


YOU STUPID IDIOT. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YA DOING THINKING ABOUT FUCKING QUITING THIS PROJECT. YOU IDIOT. DO YOU REALISE HOW MUCH TIME YOU'VE SPENT INFRONT OF THAT DAMN VIDEO EDITOR ? DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOUR ASS HAS HAD TO PUT UP TO, SITING ON A CHAIR FOR SO BLOODY LONG ? MY GOD, YOUR MAKING THIS FUCKAWSOME VIDEO AND NOW YOUR COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW MUCH TIME ITS TAKING YA AND HOW MUCH LONGER ITS GONA TAKE ? DOES TIME MATER WHEN YOUR CREATING ART ? ARE YOU COMPLAINING THAT YOU HAVE TO SUFER FOR THAT ART ? DO YOU REALISE THAT EVERY LAST DROP OF BLOOD AND SWEAT THAT POURS OUT OF YA IS GOING INTO THAT FINE WORK OF ART ? ARE YOU JUST GONA GIVE UP BECAUSE YOU'VE POURED SHITLOADS MORE PAIN INTO TIS AMV THAN ANYTHING ELS YA'VE DOEN ? THIS IS PROBABLY YOUR GREATEST AMV EVER DAMNIT AND ITS PROPABLY GONA BE FLOATING AROUND THE TOP 10% LIST ONCE YA'VE FINISHED IT. THIS IS PROBABLY THE GREATEST THING YA'L EVER CREATE. AND IF YOU THINK ONE MORE NAGING THOUGHT ABOUT HOW ITS TAKING SO LONG, OR ABOUT QUITING, WELL THEN I GUESS IL HAVE TO KILL YOU

[Tuplica]

Thanks for the support, guys. It really did change things for me... I just didn't reply at the time because I was so busy working on the video.

I stayed up for 36 hours Friday-Saturday to get it complete, and popped it in the mail on the date of the deadline. Fwew! I'm never doing that again!

Thanks !