TL;DR

It can be hard to know what cuts to make when you're so close to the source material, but in the name of engagement, we must be ruthless at times. 🗡️

Lifestyle videos are so fun because there are so many possibilities and stories to tell 📖

Here are some of my favorites I've produced over the last 10 months ✨

Apartment Tour (above) 🏡 - So much fun to film but very tedious to edit. My goal is to strip the boring parts to keep the video engaging, making sure to alternate with talking head shots and b-roll so that the viewer continues staying engaged while having a better reference to view while I'm speaking.

Cozy Hobbies 🎀 - A classic "talking head" style video where, for the most part, I'm sitting down and talking to the camera directly. These kinds of videos are very easy to film because the magic happens in editing. Mistakes? Gone! Rambling a bit too long? See Ya! Need some on-screen text or visuals to go along with a length explanation? I've got you!

Bookshelf Organizing 📖 - Almost a combination of the two types of videos above, a little bit of creativity in filming but overall, pretty quick to create. If you're anything like me, you tend to get excited when talking about your hobbies, which is great! But sometimes we must kill our darlings, and in this case, our darlings are the 10-minute monologue about our favorite book and how we chose to display it.