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Apartment Gardening

Since the weather is starting to get warmer I decided to do a gardening video with a twist. There is no space or any land to garden in my apartment so I though it would be cool to show a time laps of a tomato plant growing. The twist is that it is actually made of paper. I chose a tomato because they grow well in the summer time and with that right around the corner I thought it fit the theme perfectly. 

This assignment was really fun and i was very excited about what I wanted to record or do, and when this idea popped into my brain its all I could think about. The whole video is also a stop motion. I’ve made one other stop motion before but not within the length requirements we had to meet. This is where the challenge came in. It took about a week for me to cut out all the individual parts and pieces for the plant and about half that time to actually assemble everything. Although it was quite tedious I think it was totally worth it. I thought working with paper was going to be easier than I thought I tried so many ways of trying to glue everything together and found that the best way was super glue it was instant and strong. Please don’t ask me how many times my fingers got stuck together. The next challenge i had was actually when I went out to shoot. The wind was not on my side and all of my plants and smaller pieces kept blowing away. But maybe it was a sign because after shooting I didn’t really like the footage I had, so I went out the next day and reshot and the wind was on my side that day. 

Hopefully this video inspires you to go out and plant something real or for those who don’t have a green thumb to decorate with paper plants :).

The Search for Small

By Anne Starke

I can’t remember exactly what Teresa said in our Zoom class while she was telling us about our final project, but it inspired me to make my final project be about something that has brought me joy during these interesting, turbulent times. Life during quarantine has been an emotional roller coaster, but I have discovered small moments of joy and peace while working in my garden. These moments surprised me because even though I’ve been an experimental gardener for years I’ve never noticed how the garden makes me feel, literally, happy while I am in it. So I set out to capture the cuteness of small things in hopes of conveying some of the joy and peace I feel when I engage with them.

I shot the video on a couple of different digital cameras, experimenting with focal lengths and discovering which camera is best for getting down into the plants. Filming allowed me to engage with the plants and bugs in a new way; all of a sudden the caterpillars were interesting subjects rather than evil destroyers who must be eradicated (although I must confess to murdering them after filming them). Interestingly, I often saw more bug activity when viewing the film later than what I saw in real life. I put the video, music and sound effects together in Premiere Pro. It was fun to learn and I know I just barely scratched the surface of what it is possible. The music came from the YouTube Music Library and the sound effects from freesound.org.

I enjoyed this form of expression a great deal. It has definitely inspired me to learn more and continue taking classes in multimedia design.

a way out

I had a few different ideas for my movie. I thought about doing a music video for a friend or an abstract film based on shadows, but after I had done some project planning, I was on a mission to central california. I had to scrap my old ideas and work with a friend to create something new. We had a great time working together and our movie ideas solely evolved as we shot scenes and thought about the resources available to us. Our first idea was to do some beautiful shots of a guy going on a long journey from the countryside into town to grab a donut, but as we kept shooting, we kept coming up with plot twists and other places to take the footage. We shot this movie over 3 days, mostly on location in Lompoc, CA and then some more during our 14 hour drive back up the coast. As we were relaxing one evening after a long day of helping my good friend (and his sister) move stuff, we were chatting away about ideas for different fun things to film and we came up with the concept for a show called Legal Guardian Angel. Basically a reality show spoof where a kid gets assigned a half-assed angel who doesn’t really want to be his guardian angel and is now also on earth as his legal guardian. That idea seemed fun, but out of our resources and time frame, so we kept shooting this shots of the angel walking around and kept talking and talking about where we could take it. We had loooooots of time in that car, haha. 

After some chatting about how we were going to tie in the storyline, we decided that a voiceover would be perfect and talked some more about what we wanted to evoke. I wanted something kind of serious and moody and sad and he was down with that, so we recorded a few takes and boom, got what we needed. Then it was time to edit, where I used Adobe Premiere for the first time, along with Adobe Audition to process the voiceover initially. I had asked my friend Kyle who is a musician for some help with the soundscape and he came through with lots of choices. It was hard to pick, but I finally narrowed it down to what seemed to fit the best. I was really pleased with the audio that my phone picked up from filming, and I decided to leave that layer in as well. I was surprised to have 3 layers of audio, but it seems to work. 

I’m hoping that you enjoy this short film and it makes you think about what the point of anything is. 

Abandoned house off route 36

off Route 36 near Cheshire Oregon there is a home off the side of the road that is abandoned. my original idea for this project was to use the location for a horror-themed shoot but during my last visit, I took time to wander the home and look at the things left behind and after about an hour of walking through and looking at the belongings left behind a new story came to my mind, I wanted to highlight the horror of what the house being left behind might look like. to most people driving by the house just looks like a pile of trash but the inside used to be someone’s house someone’s life. during my walkthrough, I found old CDs, family photos, notes, all personal items that I believe if someone were to have moved they would have taken with them.

Along with wanting to capture the horror behind it I also wanted to capture the beauty of the neglect of the house, most of the plant life had overgrown unto furniture or into windows and through the floorboards. even though there is no human life living here there is still plant and animal life living here, its become their home now. Overall walking away from this project left me feeling a sense of wonder, I want to know what happened to this family and why all their belongings still remain.

this project was very enlightening and I think in the future I might do more like this just for fun, the exploration and time that I put into this felt very rewarding in the end and I came out feeling excited to pursue personal projects like this in the future. I encourage more people to wander into an abandoned place and try to learn their story and maybe capture it.

Final Project MUL101

Stacy Sellers

Teresa Hughes

MUL101 Sp20 P5 Final Project

June 3, 2020

Final Project

I really enjoyed doing this assignment. I have always been into video creation, editing, and sound engineering. This video project was really fun. It has been a frustrating term as most of us know. Not being on campus, not having access to our instructors, access to gear, and interaction with our peers, has been trying. I have appreciated how everyone has pulled through and been creative with what they have to work with. 

I have limited resources so this project was more difficult than I had anticipated. I think it turned out alright but I really wish that I had a camera as opposed to my laptop for filming. I couldn’t quite get all of the shots that I had envisioned for my short film. I had bigger plans for all of the angles and cuts that I wanted to use but I just couldn’t make it happen with what I have to work with. Despite that, I feel like I did an alright job. 

I wanted to create something like the online internet sketches that are common on YouTube. I wanted it to be funny more than anything. Man, could I use a good dose of laughter these days! My house is small and there aren’t very many options to get out to film elsewhere and even if there was, all I have is my laptop to record. That made me have to think and rethink how to make this project come to fruition. I had a lot of ideas, to begin with. After trying to get good shots with my phone and my camera, I realized that those were not options. I had to re-plan numerous times. 

Learning the editing programs has been both fun and challenging, especially without instructor contact. I’m relatively new to technology in general so it’s been pretty overwhelming. I am, however, looking forward to doing more in the future. I imagine once I get used to the programs that this will be a blast! I hope everyone is enjoying their projects as well!

P.S. I wasn’t really drinking. ?

Final Project

DISCLAIMER: All parties shown in this video are above 21. This video was shot in Eugene, Oregon where the use of marijuana is legal in a private residence.

For the final project, I knew I really wanted to make a music video. I’ve had a passion for creating video and photo content from a young age. Recently when I’ve started thinking about what I’d like to do with my future, video and photo work for musical acts is what I’ve landed on. Since a music video was even one of the suggested options, I thought this would be a great time to start getting some real experience under my belt. Luckily I live with a few different guys who are pretty established in Oregon with rap music. However, this project showed me that even when you see someone everyday locking down a time to actually shoot can be quite difficult. That combined with trying to find the most PC song of theirs that they wanted to make content for made the shooting process of this harder than expected. This video ended up being shot on a random night when Vincent’s friend was in town for the night. I had originally wanted to combine VHS and digitally shot video. I managed to include a little bit of digital video but for the most part I couldn’t make it cohesively flow like I’d seen done in big-budget videos. Beyond that, this was my first time shooting with a VHS-C camera and using FinalCut Pro. Both came with their own frustrations and learning curves. Though, after a few stressful hours of troubleshooting, I can say I’m so happy to have those skills under my belt. I’m really happy this project gave me the push to learn how to edit in FinalCut Pro. I’ve been using iMovie for years and didn’t realize how much I was limiting myself in terms of what I could create with videos. I’m really looking forward to using the program on my own time and honing my skills.

A Rainy Day In Florence OR

By Kristen Chunn

For my final project I wanted to do a photo/video essay about some wonderful memories I have with my Nana in Florence OR. I spent a large chunk of my childhood visiting her there and going around town with my family. I love looking back at old family photos, and I found a bunch of photos of us from the years 2004-2008 and I wanted to make a video reminiscing on the memories I have. My Nana was such an amazing woman, mom, leader, and grandma. She’s basically Wonder Women with all the amazing accomplishments she had in her life. My Nana was one of my favorite people in the world, and when she passed back in 2018, it was difficult for the whole family. She left behind a wonderful life and legacy and for this project I wanted to shine some light on it and have a remembrance video for her. 

I decided to make the video have a retro-90’s style and feel simply because I love the way it looks. The 90’s was such a good time, even though I wasn’t even alive to experience it. I found it so much fun to learn how to do these effects in Premiere Pro since it is something I didn’t know how to do prior to this assignment. I wanted to challenge myself with this assignment and I think I did a pretty good job in doing so. Although filmmaking is something “easy” (because it can and can’t be) for me, trying to film in a car, that’s going fast, through the hills wasn’t. I was struggling to stabilize my phone to make sure I didn’t get bumpy and blurry images but I think I managed to do so. Learning something new in Premiere was an experience for sure because it can be really difficult. I am really happy from the way that the editing and video overall turned out! It’s something new and special that I was able to do to honor my Nana’s passing.

The Museum

The Museum animations is a short story about an apple and an orange, with a participation of an unexpected Titan. I hope you enjoy it.

Note: It is a thriller.

The Museum

I have fun with this project, it was a therapy for me during this end of this ‘quarantine’ term.

My goal was to use stop motion techniques in a way that I do not rely on people to get my work done. But I end up mixing photos with video, which for me had a very interesting outcome.

I was looking for something fun but also with some suspense and mystery. I planned to eat the apple anyways, but it was just an idea, I realize my self creating the story while shooting. That was cool because I had my storyboard but while working I start adding things. So I can say that the story was created with the flow but started with the storyboard. I gather all my previous artwork to create my scenario and the two only fruits that I had left in my refrigerator.

I had two production days because I needed an extra shot, and it ended up being a smart choice, I got a cool idea which was the end. I had another day to put them together and another day to work with audio. Having those breaks for me was good because I felt that working with a fresh mind in each part of the process made me more creative and I did not feel overworking on it.

I used Premiere Pro for post-production and to record the voices of the characters. Instrumental music used in this animation is from the Incompetech website. Tools used: Camera, Tripod, desk lamp.

Last but not least, I want to say thank you to all of us that are trying our best to keep up with this quarantine term. I wish you all the best and hope to meet you in person in other classes. It was such a great experience looking and get inspired by the beautiful work among all of us.

Keep doing creative work,

Stay healthy and safe.

We made it!!

By Sara Baptista

Final Project – COVID-19 Viurs in Kids’ Eyes

I was inspired by my son to have the idea to do this video. by his question on the virus to me, I was wondering what kids think of the Corona Virus Crisis.

In early March, with the outbreak of Coronavirus in the U.S. I still went to my work, one morning, my son came to me when I was about to leave for work, he begged me not to go to work and he said there was a virus outside. I was so touched and this is the first time I noticed that this could be an issue to understand for 4 years old. I thought he might just find an excuse to keep me at home, but, his action on the second morning made me think of his request seriously as he was serious, he asked me if I was still going to work immediately when he woke up.

To face such a pressure of being quarantined for months, it is hard for many adults. Those kids have been cut away from their little mates, parks, and outdoor activities for months. What do they know and how much do they know and how are they dealing with the issues? What we can give them is more attention and love to help them come over and be stronger as they seem to be facing more challenging and uncertain worlds in the future.

I really like the procedure to produce the video, I feel grateful to have been accepted by kids’ parents and was able to approach their kids on camera. I love kids’ reasons on camera over the topic, they are authentic and pure. I feel humble to talk to them. I think, to understand how we understand the world has a large determination on how the people around us understand and interpret the world when we are small. They are the future of our world, we should be very careful about what we do and how we demonstrate the right ways and attitude to respond to them. 

by-Jimila

The Oregon Coast Sp20 P4.

Hey Everyone welcome this is something I put together for my Multimedia class! I just wanted to do something broad and easy an advertisement on the Oregon Coast. It was really a fun experience to dig into some audio editing, and adjusting sound effects. I think this was a good topic because not only are we stuck in self isolation I thought it would be a great touch to add some waves crashing along the shoreline to get a feel on how things still are out there In the real work. It’s hard to get through social distancing alone and hopeful this can give you a boost, our beaches remain safe and I know we all can’r wait to head for the shores. Take in the fresh air and let the ocean waves take you away.

Music: Dream Track By McKenna Crossley

Voices of true Oregonians: McKenna Crossley(Surfer Chick)

Melinda Green( Beach Local)