Never Too Late from Sofya P on Vimeo.
For this project, Vanessa came to me with the idea of interviewing students that had gone back to school since she had gone through this experience. I instantly loved the idea and was genuinely interested in what motivated a lot of people to come back to school. We started visualizing the project with what questions we wanted to ask these students, I asked Vanessa what questions she would be interested in asking since I knew that she could relate to these students. Once she came up with a few, we narrowed them down together.
When it came to the actual production part, we both took turns filming and recording audio. We discussed how the shots were going to look and saw that we both had a very similar vision. Editing was really fun because there were times when I was confused as to how to place something and Vanessa helped me out and visa-versa. We both were editing together the whole time and frequently looked to each other to make sure that we were both on board with all the changes.
This was my first time having to do every phase of production with someone else and it was a great learning experience. It definitely took some time getting used to it because I was so used to going with my first instinct and not having to think twice. However, I think this project was stronger because of how me and Vanessa worked together. One thing I found very interesting was when I had an idea and then she had something different in mind and I realized that it worked much better than what I originally planned. It was moments like these that showed me that with creation, two can be better than one.
