Music Video Shoot

the film shoot for our music video was great, my group worked really well together which made it much easier. will was nice enough to let us do our video on him...we went for a nature/electronic kind of thing. it was basically just him with his turn tables in the middle of different areas surrounded by nature. some spaces were filled with trees some where just wide open spaces...one of my favorite scenes is when the camera just follows the cord and it turns out its plugged into the tree. being the producer of the video, i had to get in contact with the parks and recreation lady for wilmington to get permits since we shot at wallace park. it was actually a good experience having to contact them and hopefully i formed a good relationship with them so they will be generous about permits in the future. there was also some really neat shots of will just laying in the empty field with one of his turntables just sitting beside him...em and sheledy had great ideas on how to get cool shots and where to put the camera while darion and i walked around the park and found places to shoot...they're a great group and i think our final product will be awesome

Installation

i had no clue what to do an installation on. this is the first time i have ever even seen an installation project let alone try and do one. the bill viola pieces we saw in class were amazing...i think what he does with the water falling from the sky in unbelievable. sometimes i feel like i would never come up with something like that but the more i think about, and after seeing a real installation piece, some ideas stared to form but then it ended up being almost like one of the examples we saw in class. i thought it would be kind of cool to have a piece of paper on the wall and project random lines at different times that someone would draw on the paper almost like tracing the projected lines and since its at random you wont know what is being drawn but when its finished there will be a picture of something on the paper. i dont know if that makes sense at all the way im saying it but i didnt have it formulated enough to say it in class anyway so maybe someday it will be seen but not now. im actually looking forward to working with abz again on his idea

Art House Reading

i thought the art house reading was actually pretty interesting. i think its great how art cinema is pushing into theaters around the world and all kinds of people are getting exposed to it...with more and more people being exposed to it, more and more people become interested which is expanding the art form as a whole. only thing is that with the expansion it does push out the rather risky films for the more "friendly" ones in some places. i didn't know that was even going on but it definitely makes sense now....i had no clue Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" was considered an independent movie either. the reading calls the term art house "slippery" and i see why... if a movie is non conventional its called art house. yay. just because its controversial doesn't mean its an art house film. i think microcinemas are fantastic...i wish there were more of them so everyone who thinks art films are "weird" could be exposed to their beauty. these mircocinemas allow those of us not in new york or los angeles to enjoy the non mainstream films which is great....i wish i could pay for my movie tickets with a basket of day old bread and muffins

Music Video

i am the producer of our music video so im in charge of logistics and stuff....since its a 4 person crew it'll be fairly easy to keep track of everything but my main job is to get the location, filming permits and pretty much make sure everything goes to plan as far as timing when we shoot. its a pretty cool concept we are working with....putting some electronicy techno beats in nature. we are shooting at wallace park and will is going to dj in the middle of the trees...we have some cool ideas for other features of the video but thats the main idea of what we are doing. oh and i totally changed my self portrait idea..its all about the sea

Self Portrait

my self portrait is pretty personal...i have 2 ideas but i think im going to go with one about my moms best friend. she passed away a few years ago from lung cancer and i learned one of the biggest lessons ive ever learned in my life with that experience. when i was talking to my mom about this project the other day she even brought up how ive never been the same after that. she said she noticed i always say i love you or say what im feeling more openly...and i act more impusively than thinking about things. if i want to do something i do it. if i want to say something i say it. my mom says after all that happened i was scared at first of a lot of things but then started learning not to wait....dont wait to tell people how you feel, dont wait to do the things you love, dont wait to long to dance

Sound and Light

our final project is awesome....the music morgan made on her soundscape was incredible which gave darion and i some really interesting ideas. we have sort of a rave party theme...not really a story just lots of flashy fast images that we distorted to give the rave effect. we included lots of drawings in the background of images that we did ourself...darion is amazing at final cut and i learned so much i didnt know before, so we were really able to make some cool edits. the plan was to create a party scene...just wild crazy fun and we used the two images of people to be the party goers.

Painting with Sound

hearing all of the sounds in the class made me pretty nervous at first becuase i couldnt think of how to really put the sounds into a soundscape. i couldnt deciede if it should tell a story or make music or just flow like a poem....chelise really helped me learn how to edit sound and we figured out a cool way to use a bunch of different sounds. i learned not only how to use sound in final cut but i learned a new way of looking a random sounds. or rather a new way of hearing....i play a lot of intruments so im always hearing beat in everything but now i hear them in simple everyday noises like coin drops or can crunches