What I was trying to accomplish in this video was to show Frankie exploring and enjoying the Rose Garden, highlighting the 5 different roses. I experienced a lot of problems with lighting before eventually realizing that my camera was set to a dark exposure, so after turning it back to standard that video looked amazing, but unfortunately that meant that a lot of my shots were not usable. That being said, I was really happy with the shots that I did get with proper lighting, including capturing a bee in a beautiful flower which made me very pleased.

I certainly could’ve done better with showing it in my of a story format, it just would’ve required more shots but I unfortunately ran out of time on the day of the shoot. In the future I will immediately check for those camera settings, I just didn’t know what to look for this time around.

This video is very different from what I had imagined when I first learned about this project. I had a video planned that revolves around the video genre that I’ve been filming for the last couple years. When I learned that I could not appear in the video, I had to come up with something completely different.

In almost all of my YouTube videos I either have myself as the subject of the video or a product that I am reviewing. For this I decided to do some things I had never done before. I did a lot of environmental and establishing shots.

This forced me to really focus on the framing of my shots and keeping concepts like, the rule of thirds, in mind.

I think the process went well, and should I need to do environmental or establishing shots in the future, I think it’ll be easier for me after this project.

By: Ryan Miller

This Eerie, Mysterious Tale was made with a Lowkey Lighting feel in mind. The music is slow, calm, and combined with the visuals brings a creepy feeling to it.

As I worked on this project I shifted my intentions several times, and ended up going down a visual feeling I’ve experienced while watching video projects like Marble Hornets. Moments where you don’t know what’s going on, where things happen that shouldn’t normally within the real world, and a story that leaves you with lots of questions at the end.

Honestly, while I did like working on this project I didn’t have any solid ideas going into it, aside from the shot of the figure reaching away from the camera. Most everything else came to me as I was working on it and I was struggling to figure out the next segment and make it to a minute’s time.

In the end I hope I can take this and refine it into its own creepy story that others can enjoy.

So this is my video project I decided to make a goofy video using some of my media skills that i have gained from years of work. The concept is a knight who is at home off work and in his casual outfit waking up and making breakfast. Does it sound boring yes but with the music choices and actions of the character I feel it makes for a funny and entertaining video. I want to make people laugh at this especially now with some of the drama thats out there and to show that you don’t have to make a super artsy dramatic video you can be stupid and fun. I knew that this project would require at least one effect in it which was the alarm clock i used a speaker as the base and with some simple editing I made it look like a alarm clock.

What I learned from doing this project was the power of time constraints the limit of two minutes  affected how the video came out the story was going to end in a completely different  way but the video would have been about five minutes long. So overall I am proud of this project and I hope you will get some laughs out of it.

When you are growing up, there are 10 stages you will reach. Most notably is five. Perfectly balanced towards left and right, with one unifying center.

In life you get just one moment where everything pans out to what you want it to be, and then that moment is gone, but you keep moving on.

This project is representing five to me. Five is the end and beginning of a person’s true story. 5 is the end of a season, the precipice of a new one. 5 is our struggle to be perfect, 5 is the process of winning a battle and losing.

I set up these shots with the intent to bring you into the character N’s story. The original poem was written by my partner, and the music was from Bensound. Together the intent was to give you a miffed feeling. A feeling that something tipped over the edge, teetering and dipping into a point of resolution and change.

My shots were shaky and if I could redo this I would’ve spent more time editing my reaction shots and taking a surplus of them. Despite these self critiques, I am confident and proud of the quality of this project.

Kumoricon is a 3-day Annual Anime Convention held in Portland, OR during Halloween Weekend. This year’s was the 28th – 30th and was accompanied by an uncharacteristic amount of sunny weather.

This year, the Convention had moved from a Dual Hotel Venue in Vancouver, WA, and its Labour Day Weekend schedule, to the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR, and an October schedule.

I myself was attending this year, for my second time, as a member of staff. As Photography Staff it was my job to get images of the events, panels, and general happenings going on during the weekend. I was also allowed to go where I wanted in order to get these things done. Typically this meant going into back stage areas, or jumping queues, in order to capture moments from positions and angles that regular people couldn’t get to.

The single best moment, for me, was the Cosplay Contest on Day 2 (Saturday). Cosplay, for those of you who don’t know about it yet, is a mix of the words “Costume” and “Play” and generally involves dressing up in such a fashion as to emulate a fictional character’s appearance, much like people do on Halloween. A Cosplay Contest typically incorporates two kinds of shows together: a Runway Show, where contestants come onto the stage and briefly show off their outfits in such a manner as to woo the crowd while showing off their craftsmanship. The second, is a Skit Show, where Cosplayers come onto the stage and give a performance that is flavorful to their character.

All the while the contest is narrated and commented upon a person, or persons as was the case this year, called the Master of Ceremonies, or MC for short. The MC’s job is to introduce contestants and give Skits context if there isn’t any spoken dialogue as well as offer their own commentary to keep the show interesting. Behind the scenes, there are many staff members doing their part to make sure the show flows as smoothly as possible: Live video crew broadcast the contest to large screens, as the room is rather large and filled with many people while audio and lighting techs make sure that the lights and music are perfectly timed.

As for Photography Staff, we had no less than four people (myself included) covering this event. It always proves to be an entertaining challenge for us. Each of us ends up taking a different approach and while we are shooting the same subjects we get drastically different results, but we all share the same goal. Capture a moment that we will never see again. The lights, the energy, the smiles, the amazing people who all make this happen.

This isn’t to say that the show isn’t without it’s problems. Technical issues, such as an audio tech not picking the right song, can and has happened. Typically, however, the cosplayers just don’t go on stage until their song is played, so when this hiccuped occurred it was but a brief moment. There are also moments where techs take slightly longer to switch things up between performers, so the audience is left hanging in this awkward silence. But that’s what the MCs are for; if transition takes too long they come up on stage and vamp for time, often with comical results.

I chose to do a reading of this poem because I found it very interesting, and I wanted to see what music could do to help add new meaning to it. The ambient song that I chose certainly did that I think. I had never used Audacity before this, but after getting help and watching tutorials I feel like I can do very basic audio editing, which is super exciting to me! Every time I open up one of these programs I have just no idea what to do, and usually tutorials don’t even really help me. But Audacity was so simple to use I am really happy about what I learned through this.