COM110-Fundamentals of Video (HCC-Spring21)

Hello, folks, First off I want to take the time to thank you for each and every one of you putting your all into this class and exposing me to new ideas and themes that I hand considered before when it comes to approaching film and video. I want to also thank you for spending the time in watching my final project. I want to begin by saying that my overall vision was to make something that was visually different and somewhat difficult to watch. From the heavy visual distortion and auditory noise present, I wanted to create something that was more experienced than just consumed. I wanted to explore the horror genre, with very little built-up narrative. You’re placed in a situation with a character, and it's up to you as the viewer to process what you’re viewing without any questions being answered for you.  My materials in the physical sense were basic, just my Nikon z50, tripod, fake blood, and some lights I had lying around my apartment. On the digital side were where things got in...

 For my project, I definitely decided to go in the more literal route. I was inspired by a video, one that I will link below, to take on a whimsical craft project and document its making. My main goal was honestly to try and enjoy the process as much as possible, but I also wanted to try and include a variety of camera angles, as I felt like it wasn't something I had done much of prior. The various art sides of youtube have always fascinated me, and there are so many different mediums of which to express creativity. Originally, my other goal was to provide a commentary along with my video regarding the pressures of feeling like we need to be good at activities to participate in them. I have struggled with this my whole life for various reasons as I'm sure many of you have as well. There is also this idea or common phrase regarding being "too old" to learn or do something, and I think that can deter a lot of people from doing things that they might enjoy out of fear of...

      I've really been enjoying the beautiful spring that we've been having, and it helped inspire the concept behind my final project. With the Pandemic, this spring feels like the most anticipated one of my life, and I don't think I've ever relished in the changing of the weather so much, especially with promising news of widespread vaccine rollouts. The premise behind the video is a character going out to buy a summer outfit, and shedding his bulky and protective winter clothes. This speaks both to the change in weather and collective mental relaxation that we're slowly starting to feel as more and more of us are vaccinated. The entire video is done using a handheld shot; this isn't a technique I had ever used, and helped give a more personal narrative feeling, as well as a sensation of constant motion in keeping with the dynamic climate that we're inhabiting. I chose the music, a beat made by a friend, because it has a relaxed and rhythmic vibe, but has ...

       For my project I decided to take the theme of "transformation" literally and showed the process of me making cookies. In my previous videos I took a more satirical and humorous route while filming and editing so I decided to try something new. I decided to bake because it is something I've always loved to do and after a long week of working and writing final papers I just wanted to do something I enjoyed. I did not want this to be a tutorial, just simply a process that shows how many different things can create one really great thing. I used a small ring light to help with lighting and a tripod (along with many chairs) to get the angles I wanted. It took a lot longer than I thought to film this whole process but overall I am satisfied with how it turned out. 

 For my final project, I chose to highlight the artistry of body painting. My concept was to play with the opposites of inside and outside. I painted this dream-like nature scene on one side of my face while sitting in front of an isolating brick background. For the audio, I wanted it to sound like an art gallery. I took a minimalistic approach, overlaying a couple of ambient sounds. For the background noise, I added the ambiance of people quietly bustling around a large building, and on top of that, very faint classical music. Every time a new paint square came up and was erased on my face, I used a realistic brush stroke on canvas sound effect. As a makeup artist, I've always felt like skin was my canvas. For my studio setup, I used a ring light, two softboxes, a tripod with my DSLR camera on top, a brick paper background, and a high chair. For my facepaint, I used a variety of colored body paints. Every time I finished a square on the grid I drew on my face, I would sit back in ...

 Gavin Connors May 6, 2021 Fundamentals of Video The overarching concept of my video is the Heavy playing Wario Land and he ends up losing his lives. He then throws the Game Boy and it hits the wall. Wario balances himself, he looks up, he jumps into the real world, he rams Heavy, Heavy attacks Wario, Wario is sent flying into the wall, he falls to the ground, he sees garlic, he grabs garlic, he eats garlic, he looks at his hands, his fingers become 3D, his hands become 3D, he's 3D, he transforms into 3D Wario, charges at Heavy, Heavy is sent flying into the wall, Wario looks up, he looks down, Heavy is on the ground, Wario says Oh please, did you really think you would be that lucky, Heavy charges at Wario, Wario beats up Heavy, Heavy falls to the ground, and Wario lands and strikes a pose. I made this using Garry's Mod, 3D Paint, and the camera. I made this because I wanted to express my tastes and I wanted to express my unique vision through this project.

 

Etcetera - Nexus (Final Project) For my final project, I took the theme of transformation and applied it more to the way that I edited and presented my concept. Both my mom and I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and I wanted to make my final video an abstract and tangible version of what it feels like to go from manic to depressive. I incorporated transformation as a mix of animation or drawn frames to represent mania and pure live-action for depression. I assigned depression to live-action and mania to drawn frames. Throughout the video, I switch between the two mediums.   I used my camera, tripod, and premier pro to do all the base work, filming, and editing. I used the voice memo app on my phone for a few sound effects and I recorded the music I used through that so it had a purposely grainy quality. All of the drawn frames I did myself on the Procreate app on my iPad, I took screenshots of my video and used them as a guideline for what I drew. I edited the live video t...

 So to be completely transparent, I'm torn on what I want to do exactly with my project. "Transformation" is such a broad concept with no clear direction on where to start, but this is as much a stressful notion as it is a freeing one. When I hear "Transformation" I also hear the word " process" meaning that there is a timeline full of forwarding or sometimes backwards movement. I've chosen to interpret this as needing to articulate that a "change" has taken place. The baseline from which the change occurred doesn't necessarily need to be my first scene, the change could be the first scene or shot and then the story is how we got to this point. I'd like to play with the ideas of death. and the afterlife or lack thereof. How I'm going to do this, and what I chose to use as storytelling elements is still something I'm mulling over.  sorry for the late post. I worked a ton these past few days and haven't been near my comp...

 When it comes to media based on the idea of transformation I immediately think of art in many forms. Between painting, sculpting, filmmaking, and more, there is always a start to finish and a product to gaze upon in the end. I hope to take this idea and create a small film showing the creation of an art piece. I am leaning towards making a sculpture or structure made of natural materials like rocks and sticks (and more). Art has always meant a lot to me and I also have a very strong connection to nature, so I think combining these could be a fun way to show how some objects can be transformed into something else and convey their original meaning as well as create new meaning. I am not positive on whether I will switch to a painting or a multi-medium piece, but I am planning to try what I stated above. I will, however, also test out some other methods at the same time so I have options to choose from. As for filming style, I would like to try and keep frames small and close up unti...

 For my transformation project I am thinking of showing the process and what it takes to bake a cake or some type of baked good. I want it to have calm/peaceful music playing in the background and for it to feel warm and comforting and I want multiple angles of me doing the various steps. Baking has always been one of my favorite things to do and I tend to bake a lot when I am stressed so for me it is a calming and good experience and that is what I want to try and portray in my video. 

I want my video to be about mental health awareness. I struggled with mental illness my whole life, not only through my own experiences but my family as well. I want to do a half-live half-animated piece. I want the animation to be intentionally messy with loose lines and little color. I want it to be almost jerky-like stop motion and the shots would change between the live and animated.  I would use my camera and tripod for the filming but I would also use the Procreate app to draw my animations. The structure is linear despite switching between two mediums. It's very narrative, the story of getting worse and getting better, but the shots themselves would be more abstract. I want some of the animation to be almost traced so that it can switch between the same shot in different mediums.  Mental health is really important to me and I live in a house where every single one of us has been hospitalized individually. I want to be able to communicate the lack of control that you fee...

 When I first heard that the Final Project would be surrounded by "transformation" I knew I wanted to take a more literal approach. I am a makeup artist, specifically a body painter, so I want to create a video of the transformation of makeup/bodypaint. It'll start in the one state of being (me without makeup) and transform into the character I choose to make (me with the makeup on). When I start to think of an idea for a makeup look, I like to choose a theme first and sketch it out. I would like for there to be a meaning and story behind the transformation, I've chosen the words hope, change, and new beginnings. I want it to be abstract, almost dream/fantasy-like. I look forward to playing around with colors and opacity in Premiere and also in real life. Sound will be an important element as I won't be talking at all. Even though there won't be a linear narrative, I still want the underlying meanings to show through. 

  Gavin Connors April 20, 2021 Introduction to video My final project will be animated and will center on Wario, who goes from being an 8-bit sprite to being a 3D model. Heavy is playing Wario Land and he loses all of his lives. He throws his Game Boy, and Wario feels it. He jumps out of the screen and into our world. He fights Heavy, but is overpowered. He eats garlic, he transforms into 3D, he fights Heavy, and wins. I'm going to use Garry's Mod to animate the project. I'm going to use models that I have downloaded from mods. I'm going to shoot frames and I'm going to put the models in a pose and shoot the models and I'm going to put the frames into adobe premiere pro. I'm going to be using old school video game music for when Wario is 2D, and modern music for when Wario is 3D. I think its going to be very different from my previous projects, I am very excited for the project.

Based upon the samples of abstract video provided, I understand abstractions as anything with distortion added. Such as music,color, and different combinations of camera shots. What really stood out to me was the use of greenscreen. I like the ideas that you can key onto a color and add or remove it to fit what you desire. I also like the idea of stop motion for its use of images compiled, that can set up an odd sort of effect. I am also keen on different sounds being combined, to set a certain tone for the viewers/listeners. 

 To me, abstract art and music tap into one of the purest part of artistic self actualization. As mentioned in the assignment description, abstract art is "free from the constraints of storytelling". When all the rules are thrown out of the window, artists are free to explore anything that they wish in any way that the wish. At the same time, consumers are allowed to interpret a piece in anyway that they see fit, and ascribe as much or as little meaning as they would like to. Pipilotti Rist touches on this in her interview. A lot of her work seems to me to be based on various musings and idle thoughts, and her medium of expression lets her explore her ideas without having to tell a grand story, and the result is open ended enough that without any background, we would probably draw our own individual conclusions about the meaning of some of her pieces. I think that she embodies a pretty pure and holistic type of artist; someone that is mostly unconcerned with accolades and the...

Videos like these are such a fascinating art form to me. They are not always trying to tell a narrative and linear story but they are more of a visual piece of art meant to provoke thought and feeling. My mom is an artist and she has curated shows that have included almost every medium and she has done her own work as well. I spent my entire childhood in Mass Moca walking through the different installations and the beauty of the abstract. My entire life I have been surrounded by graphic designers, traditional artists, videographers, sculptors, and writers who have talked about their process and what their art means to them.  The interviews, such as Pipilotti Rist and Stan Brakhage’s, were especially eye-catching. Rist spoke about her art with a casual grace that few can achieve. It's always interesting to hear what people were thinking when they were turning their idea into a reality. My favorite videos among these were from Peter Mack, the stop motion illustration was visually int...

 The beauty of abstraction is that it is free to all interpretations and that the artists meaning and the received message of the viewer are often profoundly different. Pipolotti Rist describes this in her interview, and she indulges in this by allowing viewers of her exhibits to become immersed in their own interception and give in to where their minds may wander. She speaks about how frames and perspective can be used to force a viewer to interact with art in ways they may not have before. When guests make it to the forest of lights, they describe that the setting feels familiar like they've been there before, and will spend time wandering around this area. This interested me, that an unnatural environment such as that could bring out emotions and feelings of familiarity.  When Pipolotti approaches her work, she approaches it from a point that human bodies are as much equipment as cameras are.  Peter Mack's really struck me as have a rhythm to it, or active energy to it...

 I think abstract art is something that can often get written off in terms of seriousness or interest. While I agree, it can sometimes be confusing or a bit weird, that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't a valid art form. Starting off, I will say that I did not like any of Pipilotti Rist's work, I do think it was interesting to watch in comparison with the other videos. Some of what she made is similar to where my mind would go when I first hear the words abstract art. Especially in her "Sip My Ocean" video, most of the museum did make me uncomfortable. It felt a bit like if I were there in that dark room laying down I would feel like I was in one of my nightmares. I realized that I think this is because a lot of her film clips remind me of the tunnel scene from Willy Wonka (1971), which in my opinion is an unsettling scene. I did, however, think that some of what she was saying in her interview was very interesting such as, "Everyone has many personas it...

 The abstraction screening was very interesting. I've never gone out of my way to watch films like that, so it was definitely a new experience. A couple of common themes I noticed in most of them was flashing lights, quick transitions, and a general feeling of uneasiness. I feel like as humans when we find something challenging to understand or cannot make out the meaning of something, it can make us feel uncomfortable. Specifically, with this genre, I notice that a lot.  Peter Campus's Three Transitions film was one of my favorites. I'm assuming in the clip where his face is turning into his face, he is painting on green paint, which is such a creative way to use a green screen. There are so many possibilities.  I also really liked Peter Mack's animation films. In his film Composition #1 (from many sources), the audio and the visuals match up perfectly. It gives off a feeling of high energy. The colors that are used are very bright but are mixed with very dull greys. S...

 The interview with Pipilotti Rist was so interesting I would love to see the world through their eyes. The concept of consuming media as if it were food was really interesting because it made so much sense how they put it. They see the world for how it is and the connection between human and nature and how we consume and experience. The whole idea of abstraction reminds me of the movie Comet where the entirety of this couples relationship is shown at different parts. It starts at the beginning, when they met, then cuts too after they break up the first time, cuts to the last time they see each other and then back to the beginning. It all cycles in a random order but it makes sense. one of the characters even talks about how she wishes life was like a painting with no beginning or end, that everything was just as it was. The whole concept of time is played with throughout this movie and it is really cool and makes you think about everything happening in your life and the choices yo...

 Overall, I did really enjoy watching Reel/Unreel. Something I took notice of first was the way the multiple types of shots felt. Although there were a variety of close-ups, distance shots, and tracking shots, each one kind of makes the audience feel like a tourist, onlooker, or almost a fly on the wall. We are simply a spectator or witness to these kids playing with film rolls. Something else I found important about these shots and this video, in general, was the use of sound in them. We are able to hear many different sounds in terms of environment and background noise, but there is no distinguishable dialogue to help tell the story. I think the use of sound, however, adds to the narrative more than dialogue probably could. For most of the video, the background noises are combined with the sounds of the metal reel against different terrains, however, we also at some points hear and see helicopters. The helicopter sounds somewhat takes us out of the playful journey of the reel alo...

 Gavin Connors march 11, 2021 fundamentals of video I liked the pieces. they were very distinctive and unique and were very experimental and covered visual elements. The Aspect Ratio video said that films should not be limited by their aspect ratios. The color collage Installation said that art can be displayed in a variety of ways. the data bending digital landscape video said that data bending and digital landscape can create a weird environment. The aspect ratio video showed how aspect ratios can be used to tell a story. The color collage installation showed a video on the ceiling. The data bending and digital landscape showed a weird environment. I think that these pieces were a great showcase of abstraction. The pieces were visual showcases that were very cool and very distinctive. I would want to make a surreal project that plays with your expectations and also be very weird. It's going to be wild and incredible. I'm going to do something very unique and distinctive that ...

In the short film, reel unreel by Francis Alys many shot types are used, as well as natural and ambient sound. the film begins with an establishing shot of Kabul Afghanistan showing its gray-brown drab landscape. then the film follows children through a city/town. as the film goes on, more and more color within the film shows up, such as the child running with the crimson red reel of film. Francis Alys makes use of beautiful Pashto as subtitles as well as an English translation. other shot types that were in use include a close-up shot of the reel when rolling, medium shots of children playing as well as animals. The film relied on clean cuts instead of any transitions. besides natural sound, natural light was used to a nice effect especially when the camera goes through the dark tunnel in a first-person pov and the almost angelic light can be seen as it approaches the exit. At some points I notice the natural sound to be a bit loud. But it does capture the city life in Kabul, well.

Francis Alÿs’s film, “Reel/Unreel”, is a close look at the cityscape of Kabul, Afghanistan through the eyes of this experimental style of documentary. The camera follows two young boys rolling reels of film, nodding to a game that the children play with hoops. There's a large variety of shots even though it is following one subject. Of course, it starts with a wide establishing shot of the area in which this takes place but the wide shots are very quickly replaced. There are a lot of tracking shots that are almost uncomfortably close to the subject and elicit a rushed and hurried feeling in the audience. Near the beginning and end when they're in more residential areas rather than the thick of the city, these hurried shots are separated by more zoomed-out tilts and pans. These are often used when the surrounding environment directs the audience's eye in a certain way. For instance, a close tracking shot would be used if they were in a wide-open area but if they were in an e...

       Reel/Unreel was an interesting and slightly peculiar short film to watch. It's centered around a game (a race maybe?) between two children, each rolling a reel of film through the streets of Kabul. The kids start on a mountain or hill overlooking the city, many of the opening shots show scenic views of the city, which are abandoned as the two boys enter the city proper. At the end of the video the boys return to mountain, and as they climb the wide shots of Kabul start to return, which makes me think that the city is as much a focus of the video as the two boys. The tracking shots of the boys racing through the city are interspersed with (often) still shots of various locations and character's in the city, which reinforces my feeling that Kabul the city is of just as much significance to the film. As mentioned earlier, the illusion of continuity is maintained by the constant over the shoulder tracking shots of the two boys, as well as by the occasional shot th...

  Reel-Unreel by Francis Al  ÿs was an interesting film to watch. It begins with a kid playing with a circle and rolling it around while hitting it with a stick and after a minute you start to see more kids playing the same game. Another kid playing the same games comes up from behind a hill and instead of just a plain circle, he is unraveling a film reel as he hits the red circle along. We then follow this kid who is unraveling the film down the mountain and through the busy city streets and eventually leading back up to the mountain. While this kid is unraveling the red reel, another kid about the same age is behind him rolling the film back up onto a blue circle reel. The kid with the blue circle follows the other kid the whole way down the mountain and through the busy city and all the way back up the mountain again to re roll the film. This director uses the illusion of continuity by showing this as one seemingly continuous shot from down the mountain, through t...

 Francis  Alÿs uses a variety of storytelling and  cinematography  elements to create a  documentary that was unique to watch and interpret. Firstly I'd like to discuss the color pallet used in this documentary, which is one of mostly earth tones and tans this is entirely due to the environment it was shot in. The city of Kabul is in an arid climate, and due to this everything present in the frame has a visual dryness to it from the buildings to the people present. This even affects the sky, as there is a sandy haze cast across the entire horizon. Knowing this,  Alÿs uses color to bring attention to attention to key subjects that we the viewer should be paying attention to, including the two boys who are unreeling and reeling the film who are wearing opposing colors. The first boy is wearing a white outfit, which almost blends into the environment's color pallet, The second boy who is reeling up the film and following the first boy is wearing a darker outfi...

 The Francis Alÿs film was very intriguing to watch. In the beginning, he shows us these circle toys that the children play with. It seems that circles and rolling toys are a common theme in the objects the children in Kabul have available to play with. Then we start seeing the young boy unreel this film across a cliff, seeing the city in the background. Then some friends come to join him as they run down the mountainside and into the city with this reel. We eventually see there is another boy following the original boy rolling back up the reel behind him. As they run through this city, this shows us an in-depth look at a day in life in Kabul, Afghanistan. The marketplace, the crowds of people, animals, debris, workers, and living spaces. After we go through the downtown, the boys go back up the mountain again and he looks over all that he just ran through. The entire film gives the illusion of continuity that they went down the mountain, through the city, and back up the mountain....

 Gavin Connors February 24, 2021 Fundamentals of Video  In Reel/Unreel, two children push a reel of film through their town. One thing that struck me was the variety of shots in the film. the film opens with a wide shot of Kabul, Afghanistan. we then go to a tracking shot of a boy with a wheel. The film consists of tracking shots that follow kids pushing a reel of film that make you feel like you're right there with them. The film is edited in a way where you feel like you're following these kids even though there was a lot of distracting things, such as the helicopters, and the goats and the sheep, it's just so far from my life. The continuity feels like a documentary, where you feel like you're on the ground with these kids. The colors consisted mostly of monotone colors, except for the reels, which are red and blue, this draws your attention to the reels. It was a stark contrast to the daily life because daily life was monochrome. The street sounds are real and unedi...

The first video I watched was Mulholland Drive Dinner Scene, and I thought this was a really interesting way to shoot and frame this. I watch a lot of horror and thriller movies so I'm used to the way that directors tend to build suspense in their shots. When the character was talking about his dream he was looking over the shoulder of the other man. When the camera cut back to him it hovered over the other man's shoulder slightly as if there was something to be seen in the peripheral of the shot. That the character was seeing something that we couldn't. I also noticed that they never did a shot that contained both of them sitting at the table from an outside point of view. They were always separated by the framing up until the end. One of my favorite shots in this scene was the tilt down to the unfinished food on the table driving home the fact that something is very wrong.  Personally, from a narrative point of view, I would have preferred if the person behind the diner ...

 "The Royal Tenenbaums bridge scene analysis" was the video that did the most to help me appreciate the technical subtleties of film making and know what to look for when analyzing other film clips. My favorite part of this scene by far was the use of leading lines. The leading lines were a very subtle and compelling use of technique, gently guiding the viewer through the scene. I also enjoyed the smooth panning from character to character in this scene, as opposed to the shot/reverse shot style from the Coen brothers video. The panning allowed for focus on each character's real time reaction to the other's dialogue, setting a natural pace to the conversation. On the other hand, I had hard time buying the commentator reading into the metal pole being symbolic in the background of the shot, to me it felt like a bit of a reach. I also really enjoyed the diner scene from Mulholland Drive, and the use of shot/reverse shot over the should dialogue. It felt like an appropri...

the first clip I choose to analyze was the diner scene from Mulholland Drive, In this clip David lynch uses the camera as a third perspective to give the viewer a sense of presence in a surrealist environment. The conversation is between two friends, one of whom is riddled with alarming dreams of the same diner where they are currently eating. The important topic of this conversation are the "dreams" one of the characters is experiencing, because the dialogue present effects the way the camera captures the scene. The camera is not static or stationary and sways back and forth, it creates this haze-like effect as if to imply a surrealistic feeling that this too is not based in reality but in a dream. The lighting through this scene appears to be creating the visual representation of "half-night" the time at which each of these dreams appear to be taking place in. Once the characters exit the diner, the character steadies to what I assume is a narrowing of focus, a  g...

     In regards to both continuity and dialogue, I would like to first talk about the video about the Coen brother's uses of shot and reverse shot. Although I did not watch this video first, it made me go back to so,e of the others one's in order to get a new view of them. I thought the way in which they look at film is very interesting. They include a psychological aspect as well as technical, and although many other writers and directors do this, they seem to really stick to it in a way that is beneficial. It's really interesting how just the type of camera lens or angle can change so much about a shot. As with the Coen's method of a wide shot with the lens closer, it can be a bit uncomfortable, but it also brings the watcher in as if they are in between the discussion, ie. in the middle of the action. This provides a feeling of direct contact with the characters that a behind-the-shoulder shot wouldn't have. I also really like the comparison the video had between...

Gavin Connors February 18, 2021 Fundamentals of Video In Monty Python and the Holy Grail,  there is a scene where a knight is running endlessly, until he stabs one of the guards and he runs into the castle. the scene makes use of time passage and parallel editing to create the illusion of the knight running in place. I felt the scene didn't look good, because the knight didn't look very convincing and the guards looking at him didn't really add anything to the scene. Next is the music video for Daydreaming , where a man walks through a bunch of doors that lead him to other places. the video uses lighting and continuity editing to create an illusion of cohesion. I feel the effect of the video wasn't convincing, it was edited in a way where you didn't feel the effect, the focus was on the man rather than the effect. Lastly, there's Coffee and Cigarettes , an anthology film that consists of shorts centering on coffee and cigarettes. in the film, Roberto Benigni and...

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      The first video I watched was the Mulholland Drive diner scene. This was a very eerie scene where the man is telling his friend about a creepy dream he had. They do a really good job of making it feel very uncomfortable the whole time you're watching even though it is relatively light out and it appears to be normal life going on around them. The camera keeps cutting between the two men having the conversation in the diner as they're talking and it is placed slightly behind the man facing away from the camera. The camera moves around slightly while they're talking and towards the end of their conversation looks like it is moving up, like we are looking down on them. The second video I want to talk about is the Bridge scene analysis from The Royal Tenenbaums. I thought this scene was very aesthetically pleasing, the colors all went so well together and it looked really warm despite being a rather cold scene. When the narrator talks about how the gap between them...

       One thing that I learned from the scene analysis of The Royal Tenenbaums , is that blocking is the placement of subjects, actors, in front of the camera. This scene analysis was very informative, pointing out many things I wouldn't have noticed before that the film-maker did purposely. With composition, visual-hierarchy, and blocking you can make the scene look so smooth with everything at eye-level while the shot makes you feel the separation between characters and even the emotional intimacy all through the camera actions.      The next video that I watched was Mulholland Drive - Diner Scene.  The thing I noticed in the first minute was the framing of the camera was in a similar spot every time it cut, behind the other character that is not talking's shoulder. But it would hover and move smoothly, almost like it was floating. This scene has a pattern of cutting back and forth to two things happening simultaneously (parallel editing). It c...

 I'm not sure why, but for some reason, I could not find the link to the Google Drive folder, so I am posting my project for Exercise 1 here for now :) https://youtu.be/aWHrHEh5I3Q

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 Hey folks, I want to apologize for my absence this past Monday. Apparently even at 25 when I get a call from school declaring a snow day, I don’t think to check my emails to see if that is indeed the case.   I was asked to go over my understanding of composition, lighting, my equipment and understanding of the assignment.  To start off, currently I’ll be shooting all my video on my iPhone 12 Pro Max. It’s equipped with Dolby vision and has optical image stabilization. Meaning that the camera lens on the device physically adjusts to stabilize the image as opposed to handling it digital through software. I’m trying to find a good tripod for my phone but I’m also trying to save and put money aside so I can actually purchase a standalone camera. As I feel it’ll will easier for me in the future.   To my understanding composition is what makes up a shot, the objects and the environment. These elements can very across different people and their interpretations of compositi...

Hi, my name is Mikayla but I like to be called Nex. My family is very well versed in video editing and adobe programs. My mom is a graphics and photography teacher and my uncle is the owner of https://wearetane.com/ .  I’ve always found what they do to be really interesting and I’ve been experimenting with it for a while. I’m super excited for this class!

  Hello! My name is Lauren Bailey, I hope to learn a lot about video production and how to navigate my camera a little more in this class. I really like photography, but video is something I haven't dabbled in much yet so I am excited to learn. Can't wait to get to know you all more.

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