How to shine a turd

Sometimes you get involved with things that just suck, you know.  As I've been looking for inspiration for a new weekly (or, if I'm being realistic, maybe bi-weekly) video project, I've been going over some of my older efforts.  Up to this point, I think everything I've done has been for practice -- learning a bit about lighting, editing and the work that can go into even the simplest of projects.  Up to the point that I made the video that I'm presenting you, dear internet, with below, I had mostly worked on "vlog" type projects, and I wanted to do something a bit more complex.  Now, I had started shooting a full-length feature about a werewolf, but I think I'll save that story for another day.

So a friend of mine had written a short scene, and suggested that we use that as practice.  It was written simply as a practice project, and came off that way.  But we ended up pouring quite a bit of work into it, even going so far as to use a sound studio (Lake Sound studios in Lake Elsinore) to do some ADR.  After cutting the initial cut of the video together, I felt like I wanted to do something more with it, and later decided to film a mock interview where I played film-maker Bodi, partly intended as a spoof on the real-life "film-maker" Tommy Wiseau.  Here is how it turned out: