A. Our concept was to describe the rough path up towards the top, or towards the reward in the end. We thought this matches really well with the current situation we are in, having to be stuck in quarantine but we still have to move on and keep going on. We thought that this poem by Langston Hughes matches the current situation really well and we wanted to say how it’s important to keep reaching to the top.

B. We didn’t exactly have a storyboard and just had the central idea of walking up the stairs and to keep reaching to the top. Since we met for the first time on the day before the project was due, from the clips we had, we were going for a more inspirational kind of video, kind of like a motivational clip. We didn’t have much time to contact each other during the project due to quarantine and changing between hotels, but I think with what we had and for the amount of time we had, we made a pretty good film. Grant focused on editing the clips together while I put in special effects and extra effects such as the animations and graphics.

C. Grant did most of the filming work and he did the base editing while I added extra effects like the glitch effects and the typewriter effect, while also adding extra black screens and pauses. Like I said before, communication was a little bit of an issue and we only met for the first time the day before it was due, but in the end it worked out.

D. I feel like the slow effect matches with the concept really well and it adds more of the somber feeling. The extra pause in there also makes the video more somber, like the path to the top is a long and hard process, but in the end you will make it. There are also many different shots of going up the stairs, which can symbolize the many different hardships of trying to reach the top.