For my video I decided to do a slap stick comedy. I was trying to accomplish a video that simply makes you laugh and also aware of the communication issues in financial aid. I have found the financial aid process to be very annoying. I get the vibe that the whole “Students First” motto isn’t the reality. They know they can be rude because there are always going to be broke students that have to deal with them no matter how they act. Don’t get me wrong. I am very very thankful for financial aid; I wouldn’t even be here at Lane if it wasn’t available. At the same time, they make it way more complicated, put up so many roadblocks and don’t tell you all the information you need upfront. This communication leaves a lot to be desired.
I had a blast making this video, and also learned a lot. I realize now that I should of coached my dad when I had him film the skit. For instance, there are a lot of parts where you don’t see the whole person while they are speaking. I learned so much about editing which will help me in filming in the future. I hope you enjoy this tongue and cheek presentation. Thanks Craig
For the final project I had different ideas, they were actually 4 and I had to rule out one by one, for having difficulty in their development.I kept the last of the list.
Over a period of 10 years accumulating photographs among other things of my dog, which I had to scan, I found the most outstanding photographs to do the project. It can be noticed that the quality of the images are not as good as I wanted, I did the best I could to have clear images.
The biggest difficulty I found was in the use of versions of iMovie, I used a 2010 computer, I was limited to only a few effects. As I had experienced in my previous work, this final project made me more relaxed and better able to dominate the editing process.
I wanted to convey my loss of a dear friend and first love to my classmates. I had lost Anna at an age where you don’t really understand what happened. It was like her death didn’t occur to me until a few weeks later when I had to go to her funeral and it was an open casket I saw her face, her blonde hair her pale skin and at that moment it hit me I felt like I had lost absolutely everything. I was dead inside for 2 years like the days just blurred together. everything was in slow motion. sorry for my lack of formal writing. Basically what I wanted to do with this video was give my self some closure. to finally say goodbye to an outstanding girl. Thank you Anna for the wonderful memories and glorious childhood (R.I.P 1995-2009)
I really enjoyed this project. Getting to work with Brian Ross & Hannah Koppes was the first instance I’ve ever had in the collaborative process of working with others on anything art related. I liked that the experience gave me the chance to be with others just as driven and determined to get this project done. Originally I went into this final assignment with absolutely no idea or direction as to what I was going to do. Then I overheard Brian talking about how he was pitching the idea of a music video and how he hated storyboarding. I thought to myself: “That’s perfect, because I love doing storyboarding.” So I joined up with Brian to help take part in his vision. He chose to cover the song to a band I had never heard of: “Why?” and their song, “For Someone”. He gave me a listen and after explaining to me what he had planed on doing, where and at certain times in the music he wanted specific things to happen in the video, he gave me a good scene of where this was headed. He told me he had an actress lined up for us (a friend of his) but after we found out that she wasn’t going to follow through for us we enlisted the help of another classmate, Hannah Koppes. (who was his original choice) and the project would have not been possible without her involvement. (no actress, no music video). After we got the okay from Teresa to have her on the team I felt good about the project, good, but not too clear on how it was suppose come together. Brian had given me bits and pieces of information as to what he had planned, but I felt that it didn’t come together into a linear story. So I decided to work on a hand drawn storyboard for us. That way we would have a better feeling of being on the same page when it came time to shooting the shots for our video/s. After showing it to Brian he took a few pictures so that we could always have it on us without needing to carry around the big cumbersome portfolio that it had been drawn on. When we went out to our locations the weather was perfect for the work we were doing. (It was almost as if god knew we were in a tight time crunch to get video). After we got the rough draft shots for what we needed I kept in contact with Brian to see where we were at with the editing. After he had pieced together our rough cut video and had a complete copy, he sent me what he had. I was ecstatic and ready to get my hands on the color-sequencing shots. After our work came together the way it did, I felt I left this assignment with more experience and knowledge under my belt then I had before it began.
I wanted to convey my loss of a dear friend and first love to my classmates. I had lost Anna at an age where you don’t really understand what happened. It was like her death didn’t occur to me until a few weeks later when I had to go to her funeral and it was an open casket I saw her face, her blonde hair her pale skin and at that moment it hit me I felt like I had lost absolutely everything. I was dead inside for 2 years like the days just blurred together. everything was in slow motion. sorry for my lack of formal writing. Basically what I wanted to do with this video was give my self some closure. to finally say goodbye to an outstanding girl. Thank you Anna for the wonderful memories and glorious childhood (R.I.P 1995-2009)
For this project I was trying to capture the essence of a hobby of mine, glassblowing. This footage was shot in the summer of 2014 in downtown Eugene at an event called DFO. Glassblowers from all over the world come to downtown Eugene to gather and enjoy this wonderful activity. Glassblowing has brought me much happiness and peace throughout the months. When you can bring a community of people together under a common idea, you can do anything. Glassblowing is a way to bring people together and build a community of awesome people creating things and doing things they love. Everyone deep down has a message or an expression to send out into the world and glassblowing is a way to send that message or express yourself. I used very calming music to reflect how relaxing glassblowing is.
Well it seemed like the biggest part of this project was figuring out what to do it on! My brother Ian and I decided to partner up for this project and our original idea was to make a short “Indiana Jones” style film but we eventually came to the realization that that would require more work than what we really had time for so then we started thinking of ways in which we could make a documentary about the Blue River Mining District where we like to go explore quite a bit. When we had finally decided that we would go with this idea, the snow came in and prevented us from being able to get up there to film so we had to scrap that idea.
It was starting to get down to the wire and neither of us could come up with many good ideas, but I went back and watched some of the projects from past terms and saw one that used animation that was a lot like “Stop Motion”. I had worked a little with Stop Motion animation back in high school and had fun with it, so I started thinking of a way we could make a story and utilize this effect.
After my brother and I sitting down and having a LOT of discussion we came up with a funny idea. Our Aunt Lisa lives next door to us and had planned on doing some yard work last weekend so we decided we would help her with it if she acted in our film. And that is how our final product came about
I took on the role of filming most of the footage for the video and Ian worked on the editing. The filming part was kind of a disappointment because the video camera I planned on using did not work so we ended up shooting with a digital camera and the quality was not as good as I would have liked it to be. The editing process was actually the easiest part of the project. The Stop Motion animation is basically just a collection of still images taken from the video footage and put in line back to back to create sort of a “flip book” effect. It is kind of a challenge in the filming stage because there has to be a person that steps into the frame and moves the object that the stop motion effect is applied to slightly and then walk out and back in again to move it a little more and a little more until the object is where you want it to end. In the editing stage, you then take a snapshot of every moment in which the object has advanced and the person moving it is off screen.
I had fun working on this project with my brother and aunt. And I am pleased with how it turned out.
My brother Brendan and I worked together on this final project. To start, we had numerous ideas on what we wanted to do the project on, but ran into problems with each idea. Plus we wanted to come up with something different enough than our previous projects. After a LOT of thinking, my brother finally came up with the idea of creating a stop motion animation. I had done one of these a few years ago for my high school video production class and had a lot of fun with it. We both agreed on coming up with a story that we could create a stop motion on. As luck would have it, our aunt Lisa had been wanting to get some yard work done that weekend. The first thought that came to mind was having a lawn mower cutting the grass all on its own! She was also wanting to get one of her apple trees trimmed, so that’s when we thought of having the tree cut itself. Once we had came up with this idea, the rest of the process ran fairly smooth. The filming of the stop motion is a process, because it involves stepping in and out of the frame moving the object in small increments at a time. We weren’t thrilled with the quality of the camera we were using either, however it was the best one we had to use besides our Gopro’s. Once the filming was done, the editing went pretty quick and was relatively easy. The music is always one of the hardest steps for me, finding out a tune that will flow good with the screen action. Overall, I am pretty satisfied with the final video. Why is it called “A Dream Not Come True?” You’ll have to watch it and find out! 😉
This will be my final entry for this blog at least for this class…I plan on continuing to do blog entries for things that have caught my interest! So do stay tuned!.
For my final assignment I wanted to do a piece that spreads an important message so the subjects I chose were depression and suicide. Depression affects many people all over the world as does Suicide it’s nothing to bew taken lightly or joked about.
“According to depression statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 9 percent of adult Americans have feelings of hopelessness, despondency, and/or guilt that generate a diagnosis of depression. At any given time, about 3 percent of adults have major depression, also known as major depressive disorder, a long-lasting and severe form of depression. In fact, major depression is the leading cause of disability for Americans between the ages of 15 and 44, according to the CDC. Understanding these very real depression statistics helps paint a fuller picture of the impact of depression in America.”
It is my wish that this piece helps those who deal with this demon known as depression and can be helped to not give in and commit suicide. Remember, it is never too late to seek help.
