So this past Friday was the day of Visions and the whole day I was wondering when I was going to become overwhelmed with emotion dictating that I helped to not only put together this festival and conference but that I was actively participating in it! To be honest I don't think I truly understood the impact of the event until about 5:30am the next day. After being up for almost 24 hours I was in complete shock of how well everything went. Not that I was expecting anything to go wrong but I was prepared to facilitate staff members if a problem did arise. I believe that the level of professionalism that the staff and the presenting filmmakers and scholars contributed to the event will be extremely hard to "one-up" next year.
I was honestly surprised about how friendly everyone was at the event. Again, I wasn't expecting anyone to be super pretentious but it was humbling to have filmmakers and scholars coming up to me saying "thank you for everything." I was deeply touched by their kind words and I hope that their experience that they had at Visions was one that they will always remember and share with other fellow filmmakers or friends.
I was surprised that there weren't any serious technical difficulties during the course of the day, especially with Video Race. I think everything was super well organized and the mayhem that required recording 10+ videos on different phones and transferring the data in order to showcase the one-take videos in Lumina went flawlessly! I also enjoyed hearing all of the scholars' presentations because some were adapted from their papers which made me even more intrigued about their particular topic. It was also great to see all of the films on the big screen with an audience and not by myself, confined by the dimensions of my laptop screen. I thoroughly enjoyed my entire Visions4 experience and I can wholeheartedly say that I don't think I would change a thing!
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