2020 Review
2020 has been the strangest and definitely one of the hardest years of my life not because of what happened to me but the fact that strange and hard things were happening to everyone. The year started like most do for me and I had heard of the covid-19 but I wasn’t expecting it to become what it did. When March came I lost my job as a newborn photographer in hospitals. I completely understand this and support it but it was hard being furlough and not knowing for how long. I thought initially it would only be for a couple of weeks or months but it’s ended up being the rest of the year and into the next. I don’t know if I will be going back to work and if I will be going back to that job or not.
After being put on furlough I found myself with a lot of time on my hands that I found that I needed to fill. In the beginning of quarantine, I started with photoshop and I didn’t really know how to work photoshop so I decided to start figuring out how work it. I have learned a couple of basics and it's been fun using my creativity to while learning new things. I then started taking on Final Cut Pro, the movie editing software by Apple, and I looked up tutorials and played around with it to learn it. It frustrating at first because I knew it is a powerful software and I wasn’t able to use all the power. With time I was able learn and feel more comfortable with it. In the fall I started learning Premiere Pro, Adobe’s movie editing software and it’s what I’m learning and working with currently.
For the first 3 months of quarantine I blogged everyday. I was planning on just taking a couple of days off of blogging and ended up not going back to it. I kind of wished I had but once I got out of rhythm of doing it I had trouble getting back into it. One thing I did do was take lots and lots of photos. I became a better photographer and a better editor than I was at the beginning of this year. I’m grateful for the time to be able to improve my craft and feel more confident behind the camera and the editing screen. I’ve also improved in editing video just with practice and a bit of learning from school.
In the start of 2020, the thought of going back to school wasn’t even on my mind. During the late spring/early summer, when it become clear that I wasn’t going back to work anytime soon the thought of going back to school for filmmaking crossed my mind. I went with filmmaking because I LOVE movies and I’ve always been fascinated with behind the scenes. I’ve thought about doing this for school and a career before but didn’t do it because I didn’t think I would be good at it and I would have trouble find a job. With video being a bigger part of our world now a days one of those fears is gone. I’m hoping my talent will go with school and practice will help with the first fear.
2020 has been a super tough year on my mental and emotional health but it’s been good to reflect on what is going good in my life like growing as a creative, person, friendships growing and having a future that I’m excited about.
