Being away from Oregon for a little while made me realize just how much I love the fall time here. For my project I decided to record five activities to do in October, to remind myself and others that there are still plenty of activities to do even as it begins to get cold again.
All videos and film images were captured by me, music found on pixabay.com. I worked on this project in Adobe After Effects and created my transitions with keyframes.
By: Emma Lyddon
After years of confusion and frustration with my mental health, I was diagnosed with Bipolar II when I was 19 years old. Bipolar II is characterized by the presence of depressive and hypomanic episodes. While most people are familiar with depressive episodes and how they can present themselves, hypomania remains somewhat mysterious for those who have not been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder or have experienced it secondhand. There are obviously quite a few more than five hypomanic symptoms, and it’s far more complex than I could represent in two minutes, but I wanted to focus in on the key ones and how they compound upon each other.
To create this project, I combed through years worth of footage from some of my lowest (and highest) points and edited it together in iMovie. I created and recorded the background song in two days while actively in a hypomanic episode, shortly after being diagnosed. This project ended up being far more meaningful to me than I anticipated it would be, but I’m extremely proud of the end result.
Bipolar Disorder still carries a lot of stigma, especially in media portrayals of it, and I wanted to present a very real and raw look into what it’s like to actually experience it. When I filmed this footage many years ago, I had no idea why I was recording, but it felt like I had to. It was a means for me to reflect and be heard, even if only by myself. I’m extremely proud of where I am today and haven’t had a true hypomanic episode in years thanks to a combination of working hard in therapy, medication, and an amazing support system.
By: Nina Soldati
For this project, I decided to do another song, as well as a visualizer for said song. I think that it turned out pretty well considering the quick turnaround.
I incorporated the concept of 5 in two ways. For starters the most obvious example is the first line in the hook, being “I’ll be there in five”. But in a more subtle way, I applied it to the rhythm/flow of the hook as well. I use a 5 – 11 – 4,5 – 4,5 rhythm in the hook. Overall, the content of the song is about being in a toxic relationship, but in the end alway being a call away from one another.
For the video, I used a mix of older videos that I had as well as ones that I had recorded in the week leading up to the due date. Visually I aimed to create a sense of motion harping back to the sense of “being on my way”, as well as creating an aesthetic using lower quality and grainy footage which adds a nice texture to the video. I used clips of looking out of a car window, train window, etc. to achieve this. During the bridge section of the song, I added clips of looking out of a house widow showing the “other side”/waiting. Additionally, I used some vfx to make the text that appears throughout more interesting.
I hope you enjoy!
P4 Project. for this project, I decided to make eggs 5 different ways. I used video and images, and also made text to describe the steps and sections of the video. I had trouble uploading it to YouTube but I got it in the end. Editing video is a lot harder than editing audio, and I had trouble getting adobe to do what I wanted while creating the project. I used the music “SEXY DANCE GROOVE” by FineTune Music. The title was funny and I thought that the music fit what I imagined the video would be like. I enjoyed making all of the egg dishes, but had a hard time eating it all so I spaced out the cooking over a few days
By Sam Kruse
P4 Project. for this project, I decided to make eggs 5 different ways. I used video and images, and also made text to describe the steps and sections of the video. I had trouble uploading it to YouTube but I got it in the end. Editing video is a lot harder than editing audio, and I had trouble getting adobe to do what I wanted while creating the project. I used the music “SEXY DANCE GROOVE” by FineTune Music. The title was funny and I thought that the music fit what I imagined the video would be like. I enjoyed making all of the egg dishes, but had a hard time eating it all so I spaced out the cooking over a few days
By Sam Kruse
With this project, I wanted to change up the flow of my typical style of Audio and video. I challenged myself with this project, and unfortunately I feel like I bit off more than I could chew with this one. I will say that I impressed myself with the story telling and visualization aspect of the project, but in the future I definitely feel like I need to go into these projects with a simpler approach. The story follows a 3rd person narrative of this character me and a buddy created a few years back, and he fits the 90s aesthetic pretty well. So overall, I had a good time with this project, and I’m impressed with how I’ve done.
-Carsen Perry
I had a lot of fun making this video because I made about 5 of my favorite things. I made this video using a mobile app called “InShot”. I wanted to make it large enough to view on the phones, but for some reason when I posted it on Youtube, it had a blank space. I don’t know how to fix it, so I will make it an assignment to figure out how to fix it. I took a lot of vertical photos when I was in Japan, but not many videos, so I wish I had taken some when I was in Japan.
For background music, I used free music included in the app and recorded my voice as well. I was able to record from any point in time, so instead of recording all at once, I recorded a few times. It was a fairly easy process. It was also good practice for speaking English. Following Teresa’s advice, I also included a Japanese countdown. If anyone wants to study Japanese, I hope they will listen to it.
I found some problems in video editing, but I also found the functionality of “InShot” to be very good. I will use this app again when I make videos in the near future.
by Madoka Shimmyo
It’s the number 5.
This is a hand drawn piece that only took me a few hours to finish. There is no music, and this is not a video because that would be a silly way to display a still image. I hope you like the number five. Thank you for reading.
-Max Ryan
This project was . . . interesting. Video editing is very much not my strong suit, and neither is working with anything involving sound, so this whole thing was slapped together with a healthy helping of “I sure hope this works”. Getting all of the pictures was definitely a more entertaining process, if somewhat cringe-worthy. All of the doodles come from various notebooks that I’ve used over the past five years, which are mostly full of writing that hasn’t seen the light of day, and definitely for good reasons. Some doodles didn’t make it into the final video, actually, because there was too much text around them or enough in their vicinity that I deemed them ineligible.
But I digress.
There’s a very loose color-code system to the doodles: older pieces are likely to be in black ink, while colored ink or pencil are hallmarks of somewhat more recent work. The doodles are sorted into a few categories, and as I learned while assembling the video, I drew a lot of wings or things with wings. A surprisingly small number of crests were legible enough to be included; aside from the wonky ‘horned’ crest, none of those pictured are connected to any major plot points in any of my worlds.
In summary, while I’m happy enough with my final video, there’s a lot that I wish I could’ve done better, as well as a lot more that I wish I could’ve included without having to awkwardly block out everything around the doodle itself. I hope to get better over time with both video and audio editing.
By Kaitlyn Harper
Flash Warning? This project was definitely hard to figure out what to do at first, as the directions were very vague. This makes me excited to see what everyone came up with though! I came up with my Idea by just simply wanting to draw more. I always hear people saying drawing at least once a day can help you improve. So I thought hey, I can draw some stuff each day and then compile them all into a video for my project.
I didn’t exactly know how I was going to execute that until I went and picked out an audio track to use. I thought the drums were very prominent and were perfect to make the pictures cut between each other. I added the switching black and white background because I just simply thought it looked cool with the music.
I picked 5 different random things to draw and drew 5 each day for 5 days. I outlined them in 5 different colors to help add to the theme of 5. I tore them out of my book and taped them onto a different paper I scribbled on to make it look a bit more interesting.
I wish I had done something a bit more with my project though, but I had a lot going on last week so I couldn’t work on it as much as I would have liked. I should have taken my pictures in landscape, but I didn’t realize it til I started editing…
I used this sound from freesound.org: https://freesound.org/people/frankum/sounds/402018/