First of all, I want to say that I am deathly afraid of camcorders just because I do not understand them at all.  I found them to be more complex than my camera that I take pictures with.  As I get more used to using it, I’m sure that my fears will go away.

You can imagine me going into this project that I was a little hesitate about my abilities to produce quality work.  As Kelly and I were brainstorming ideas, I actually came up with the “Everyone can be a Farmer with John Deere” idea and we decided to run with it from there.  Picking the actors weren’t too hard because I had some in mind already.  The biggest and hardest part of the production was just finding decent days to shoot.  The day that we were planning on shooting, it was pouring down rain outside.  So to compensate, we decided to just record Tommie’s voice that day and shoot the next day.  It all worked well that way, too.  We shot the whole commercial in a day, which I thought was pretty productive.

We did encounter some problems in editing shots but we worked through them.   All in all, we worked together as a pretty productive team.  I hope my next project will go more smoothly, though.