Everything I do in life, I try to do in some meaningful way. But what to consider meaningful is different for everybody. To me, for example, it is seeing beauty in simple things. They can become magical looking if you add a ray of light. I tried to share my vision in this short movie to inspire you in these dark, rainy and cold days. I caught and saved a little bit of light for you!

Now about the technical side. The last time I saw Adobe Premiere, was about 15 years ago. Of course, it has changed a lot. But it was so familiar and nice like a meeting with an old best friend you haven’t seen for many years. I didn’t have much experience with this software before, I still don’t know many tools and functions, I constantly struggle with specific English vocabulary there (you probably remember, it is not my native language, and I am still learning it), but this space rocket dashboard really feels like home to me! I only wish my computer was a bit faster to process the preview window.

For the audio part, I used a recorder Zoom H1n to record my voice. Then I applied my new skills learned this term, in Audacity, to edit the audio files. For the musical part, I used samples from a free library: https://samplefocus.com/

What I really missed during this project was a team. I dream to work with creative and enthusiastic people who can see the world like me or kind of similarly. Besides that, I have felt the lack of knowledge about camera work. My ideas were beyond my skills (of course!), and I felt sad that I don’t have a videographer friend who could teach or explain many different little things to me. But even without having the necessary knowledge, I tried to be creative. For example, I broke the rule of stability and shot all the videos without a tripod. I did it on purpose. I wanted to create a lively, breathing video. After all, we are talking about beauty (in the film), and this is what excites the heart. So there are no stable pictures. Life is generally unstable, and we should greedily enjoy every moment of beauty in it. Yes, “the roses”!

By: Lyu Gramley

(Oh, yes, last week, I got citizenship and changed the spelling of my last name!)