Oh boy… what on earth do I say about this video..?

Well… first off, I have a horse mask that I like to goof around with from time to time. The mask makes just about any situation better.

Anyway, for this project, I wanted to make something fun since a lot of what I’ve been working on lately are more serious in nature. So I asked some of my friends/co-workers if they would like to goof around with a horse mask, and they said, “Sure!”

It was a lot of fun to make this video. We had to do several takes because we would crack up in the middle of a scene. My friend, Jeffery Osborns, did a great job giving the mask a life of it’s own.

The goal for the video is simple: make people laugh with weird humor.

So the lesson learned today is… if you have the opportunity to horse around for a school assignment, take the opportunity.

So, I really wanted to avoid the whole “5 Steps” thing. Mostly because I feel like it’s not that creative and it’s kind of cringey in my opinion. But as I came around to actually doing this project and what I could realistically accomplish, this whole 5 steps thing just sort of happened on it’s own. I work at this pizza place, Figaro’s Pizza,  I had work this past weekend so I decided to bring my camera and record my coworker making my pizza. The audio from the videos were very airy from the mic in my camera and sounded weird, so I avoided using the audio and just found some Italian theme music that I thought would fit well. This was the outcome.

By: Francis Pardo

Yet again, I have gone outside the box. People don’t understand the struggle. Imagine a road. Dark. Someone is out there. No Noise. Just motion.

I haven’t used video editing software in awhile. Premiere sure seems like other Adobe programs. My constant mantra was “well that could of been simpler to do.” I guess I should practice with it some more in the future. I need a better camera too. The one I have at the moment is a little crappy cheapo thingy that runs on triple A batteries. I guess its not much but it makes a turd! You probably don’t realize this but I actually wrote the dialogue, like down on a piece of paper, and like rehearsed it. For real. Did I reach a hundred and twenty words? Yes, yes I did.

By Billy Dyball

So, I did another project about basketball. Mainly because it takes up most of my free time so naturally it’s what I film the most.

This time I wanted to extend it past basketball and connect it to a bigger concept around finding your passion.

I use the number 5 to introduce the human being, and I mention how we all choose to use the energy of our 5 limbs and 5 fingers on different things in our life.

I believe that you should search for something that you really enjoy using your precious time and energy on, rather than using your time and energy to obtain material goods that don’t last or have real value.

That’s basically what this short video is about.

Image editing isn’t as easy as some may think. At least it wasn’t for me anyway. It wasn’t easy but for some reason it has been my favorite project so far. I was really able to put my own creativity and thoughts into it. The purpose of this assignment was to answer the biggest question of all, “What does 5 mean to you?” Well, I answered. My five values of life are what make me who I am today.

I’m a huge believer in Christ and my faith grows everyday with all the lessons life throws at me. I have my high school experience at Marist to thank for this because with all the school masses and retreats, it really helped me get in touch with my faith. My God is always number one in my life and I can’t express that enough.

My family is my everything because they’ve been there for me all my life. They are the people I can truly count on, my mom, dad, sister, and nephew. They mean the world to me and I don’t know what I would ever do without them.

I value Joshua so much. He’s not just my boyfriend, he is my absolute best friend. We’ve known each other since we were in high school together so he knows just about everything he can about me. He’s extremely supportive of all my dreams and he does all that he can for me. Like every couple we have our ups and down, especially right now with him being away in the Air Force. I believe that no matter what, we will always find our way back to each other.

I’ve always been told that I could dance before I could walk and that I was able to sing before I could talk. I consider music to be apart of who I am. It’s something that I’ve turned to in my darkest of moments all throughout my life. I enjoy every genre of music from Country to Rap to R&B to Disney. Music makes my heart beat.

I believe in strength. I have been through so much in my life, a lot of happiness but also a lot more of pain and suffering. The other four values are what have helped me push past the hard times to be able to still be here today. I fight everyday to continue on and I’m glad to be living once again.

By: Gabby Mujica

Honestly, I just wanted to do something fun and laid back. So I thought, why not add another cat video to the internet and make it a project?

My cat  Moe mostly inspired me for this project because he’s always posing for attention at home. He constantly rolls onto his back and tries to act cute. It’s his best defense when he’s in trouble because he knows it’ll diffuse the tension from him. Or maybe not. Maybe he just likes to act adorable all the time.

Although he is cute, filming cats comes with challenges. You can’t really tell them what to do on camera like people or give them a script. I just followed Moe around the house and hoped for the best. I was able to work with him on getting an eating shot because all I had to was give him a can of cat food for it to work.

That’s is always one way to a cats heart. Food.

Overall, I just wanted to make an easygoing toned video.I think the music really helped set the mood along with my lazy cat. One thing I do wish is for some shots to be sharper. Definitely next time.

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed the video.

P.s; if you ever want to book Moe for a performance, just let me know.

I just want start out by thanking my friends Martin King and Noah Gutierrez for helping me out with this project. They did a wonderful job acting out the scenes and inputting some funny concepts which I decided to add to this short.

Initially when I started this I was struggling immensely to come up with ideas. I had all these grand concepts, but no idea of how I would be actually able to implement any of them. After struggling and getting nowhere, I decided to keep it simple and stick with what I already know.

I am infatuated with the sport of hockey. I have always been ever since I was a little kid. Everything about it, from the physical act of playing it, all the way down to its culture. With it being a sport with most of it’s players being from Canada, it’s lingo is one that is truly unique. I decided to go with the five most common hockey terms that I could think of with definition. I also wanted to provide a scenario with each word to give the viewer a full idea of how they are used.

I filmed at the Rink Exchange off of 13th street. The sets included the locker room, outside the glass of the rink itself, and the parking lot. I wanted to arrange them to tell a story of the players first arriving, to playing in a game, to leaving after the game and getting ready to head home.

I filmed on a Canon EOS Rebel t5i. I also recorded the audio on the T5i as well. A few concerns I had was the audio recorded through the camera itself was going to be of poor quality and would either peak constantly or be too quiet itself. I was also worried that the initial ambient sounds of the rink itself would over power the sounds of both my actors. We actually had to wait to film the locker room scene because the Zamboni room is connected to the side of it. When we first started filming it the Zamboni came back off the ice and was making an incredibly loud and annoying sound, which lead to laughs amongst us due to the inconvenient timing.

While editing the film to my surprise, the audio turned out alright from the t5i. There is a bit of ambient noise but all of the lines projected over it perfectly fine in my own opinion. The editing process itself was much simpler than I first anticipated. Being my first time ever doing video editing I was in panic mode. Luckily Adobe Premiere was a pretty smooth program to learn. I would have liked to have used Kernkraft 400’s Zombie Nation as the in between scene music since it is pretty much the hockey anthem, but I had to settle for some free generic rock music instead due to copyright laws.

Overall this was probably the most fun I have had doing a project in this class, and I hope you enjoy it.

I just want start out by thanking my friends Martin King and Noah Gutierrez for helping me out with this project. They did a wonderful job acting out the scenes and inputting some funny concepts which I decided to add to this short.

Initially when I started this I was struggling immensely to come up with ideas. I had all these grand concepts, but no idea of how I would be actually able to implement any of them. After struggling and getting nowhere, I decided to keep it simple and stick with what I already know.

I am infatuated with the sport of hockey. I have always been ever since I was a little kid. Everything about it, from the physical act of playing it, all the way down to its culture. With it being a sport with most of it’s players being from Canada, it’s lingo is one that is truly unique. I decided to go with the five most common hockey terms that I could think of with definition. I also wanted to provide a scenario with each word to give the viewer a full idea of how they are used.

I filmed at the Rink Exchange off of 13th street. The sets included the locker room, outside the glass of the rink itself, and the parking lot. I wanted to arrange them to tell a story of the players first arriving, to playing in a game, to leaving after the game and getting ready to head home.

I filmed on a Canon EOS Rebel t5i. I also recorded the audio on the T5i as well. A few concerns I had was the audio recorded through the camera itself was going to be of poor quality and would either peak constantly or be too quiet itself. I was also worried that the initial ambient sounds of the rink itself would over power the sounds of both my actors. We actually had to wait to film the locker room scene because the Zamboni room is connected to the side of it. When we first started filming it the Zamboni came back off the ice and was making an incredibly loud and annoying sound, which lead to laughs amongst us due to the inconvenient timing.

While editing the film to my surprise, the audio turned out alright from the t5i. There is a bit of ambient noise but all of the lines projected over it perfectly fine in my own opinion. The editing process itself was much simpler than I first anticipated. Being my first time ever doing video editing I was in panic mode. Luckily Adobe Premiere was a pretty smooth program to learn. I would have liked to have used Kernkraft 400’s Zombie Nation as the in between scene music since it is pretty much the hockey anthem, but I had to settle for some free generic rock music instead due to copyright laws.

Overall this was probably the most fun I have had doing a project in this class, and I hope you enjoy it.

When set this assignment the first thing that came into my head when thinking about 5 was 5-a-day which may speak to the power of advertising but I decided to run with it. I had had a notion in the back of my head to try some sort of stop motion for a while so I figured this was as good a chance as any. Plan A was going to be claymation but then my modeling clay fruit and veg didn’t want to stay upright so it was back to the drawing board and a quick trip to Albertsons to get some actual fruit and veg!

Poor fruit and veggies, denied their time in the limelight.

After I took all the photos I started thinking about what else I wanted and got to thinking about the Baz Luhrmann song (Everybody’s Free) to Wear Sunscreen and wanted to go for a similar vibe of having the somewhat techno music overlaid with facts about why you should eat five a day. I managed to find on the internet a list of 5 five a day facts and then since I didn’t much want to have to listen to my own voice again I outsourced the audio to some friends at which point I decided to continue the 5 theme and get 5 different accents reading my 5 facts.

Once I had all my bits recorded it was time to put it all together along with background music from the free music archive. Having never used Premiere before it was a bit of a learning curve and in order to get the look and sound of what I wanted I ended up assembling the stop motion in a different program and inserting the resulting video clip into Premiere then editing my audio in Audacity before adding that the premiere. With all my bits in place I could then play around and add titles and effects until I got something I was reasonably happy with.

I don’t think this is a perfect piece, far from it. One of the problems with getting audio recordings from people on the other side of the country/planet is that I was relying on them to record the audio so the quality isn’t quite what it could be. I also spent a lot of time playing with how I wanted to use the audio, originally I had everyone reading all 5 facts and just staggered but that just sounded messy.

Hopefully it’s at least moderately entertaining and if you are wondering who that odd guy at the end is go watch this and get an insight into what passed for children’s entertainment in the UK in the 1980s…