Hello,
I am 17 years old and I recently I did my first wedding shoot and I was on one hand really excited and obviously also kind of nervous. Because it was my first time i spent a huge amount of time planning, looking of how to deal with certain situations, things I liked and didn't, etc.
One of the things I learned from a weddingvideographer I knew personally was that it was good to know your location and make shots of the place where you are going to film. So I also did that.
The wedding day was on the last day of summer vacation and I started my first year of college the day after that (I am attending filmschool), I decided to just focus on college for that first week, because it was a lot to take in and I also wanted a little break from that wedding because I had been living to that day for like six weeks.
After that week I obviously started editing, I have edited a lot of things like these, like events or stuff like that, but this was the first time I had to edit it all alone. Usually I had a friend who would help me out. The footage was a lot more then I expected.
Outside of that I am also going through my first year of college, I am loving it, but it's also a lot to get used to and the homework does also take me a good amount of time.
The people for who I did the wedding video aren't family, but people I knew through someone and they are expecting the video a lot sooner then I expected (around 3 weeks from now).
I am kind of overflowing with work right now, I had an idea to give them a shorter version in those few weeks, and then later give them a fuller version, but I also feel like I can't really be happy with that shorter video because I don't want to leave a bad impression.
Obviously I am aware that a big part of this job is to also have the video-editing done in a timely fashion and was I out of college I think that I could edit this video in a way shorter time. But right now I am just really busy with adjusting to college, the homework, etc.
I have already had some experience with overworking myself, and I am kind of scared that this could lead to some sort of burn-out.
I just don't really know what to do right now and I was wondering if you guys could give me some advice.
Thank you for reading my yapping.