where is the panera lemonade that kills you

 Panera is my home, and I live here now. 

There's a certain calmness that washes over oneself when they spend 36 hours in a Panera Bread over the course of 2 days. Editing this doc brought me to nirvana, if, of course, nirvana was the chicken and cheese sandwich I got 4 times at Panera.

Hello Beautiful 😍

After Aneesa and I interviewed her mom, we made our first pilgrimage to the holy land of Panera. We had over 4 hours to sort through. We started to also look at music from Epidemic Sound and Bulletproof Bear.

Some calm structuring at Panera

We were very tired after finishing around 3 minutes of the doc, so we decided to come back the next day and really lock in for real for real. 

                                                                  12 HOURS LATER...

                                                                Hello, I am back in Panera. 

Nico, ever the theologian, came in after filming mass with a great idea for structuring. Meanwhile, just like apostles before me, I was struck with a vision for the opening. I was watching YouTuber and journalist Johny Harris a couple of days prior, and one of his video intros particularly caught my eye. You can watch it here.  In the intro, Harris uses animation to demonstrate his points. I thought this could be a unique way to introduce our story. While interviewing the professor from NSU, she mentioned a pretty interesting metaphor for faith as a concept. She told the story of 3 blind men, all with their hands on an elephant. Each man grabs a different part of the elephant, therefore feels it's a different animal. They may never know what the animal is, and they may never see it. But they know something is there. We thought this was a beautiful image to portray, and certainly a memorable one to start and end the doc. While Nico and I structured to story, Quinn got to work on the elephant in the room. 

The Elephant in the room

Quinn addressing the elephant. 

A few more hours of structuring and all that jazz at Panera, and we had almost a final product. I stepped outside Sunday night and seethed at the fresh air. Take me back. 

Well, on Monday we were! Call me bread cause I be at Panera ykwim. 

This time, we were really focused on cleaning up anything we needed. The night before, I kind of cleaned up the structure and color graded alongside Quinn, really just leaving the b-roll to put on. We also needed to write narration for the piece. 

Nico and I writing the narration

Frankly, Shakespeare could not have come up with what Nico and I wrote (dead for a bit). Aneesa recorded, and I plugged it in and leveled, and mixed it.  Finally, after finding a couple of images, I clicked Command M on my keyboard and exported. 

There is a valuable lesson to learn when you're the hare, but an even more valuable one when you're the tortoise. Basically, what I'm saying is I submitted at like 11:55.                       

 

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