We have a video project, make a PSA about a certain social topic. This was, just like the other video projects we had, boring at first, but grew to be more fun as we went along. The first part we had to do was make a script, which was pretty slow, but we got it done. I also had to research, because I was the writing department, which went by quickly too. But, putting that together with Judah and Jaiden, the graphical and video people, was the hardest. Since, we had to make some adjustments in order to fit our parts together, or make certain elements up with someone else's plans. Then, we had to actually film, which was the slowest part, but the most fun. Since we got to recording a bit early, we had a bit more time and tried to figure out how to actually do each of the roles, as I don't know how to act. We had to shoot fourteen shots, with multiple takes in some. We also goofed around a bit, due to the somewhat open interpretation with my script. This resulted in not so serious line deliveries, like me going "Am Sad," or use not being able to walk off screen correctly. But, we had good cuts and footage that resulted in a pretty good video. So, I liked this project, since it was fun and had a nice end product of a video that involved all sorts of elements to put together. There were laughs, dramas, and lots of fun to be had. So, what did we learn, again?
The PSA we made The goofs and outtakes from shooting
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Sorry, for the weird title, I want a title different than "what we did this week." Well, we don't have a blog post this weekend, but we have a EoQ check that I only have ONE more personal blog post to have in order to make the grade. So, may as well make a post.
So, I FINALLY finished the montage about capitalism, and, initially, I got a bad grade, because I didn't have music. Which, makes sense since it did make the final version a bit more tense. After we did that project, we made a "shot reverse shot" sort of montage, in which I made a bit more snarky make of the video. This was fun at first, making something by our own intuition, and having a little fun with it. It then turned infuriating, when I had to cut it down to thirty seconds, when my original "Director's Cut" was over a minute. But, in the end, it was a nice little project that put a little spin on something we take for granted, which is camera cuts and angles. But, they are SUPPOSED to be like that, so it's pretty cool. Since this is a personal sort of post, I don't have to research a topic, so WOOH. Sorry for the CAPITALIZATION, I "had" to go on a weekend long vacation with family. In which I couldn't bring my computer, because we went straight there from school, and I forgot once we got home, until now, before bed. So, we're making montages, with ACTUAL clips of footage, AND sound effects. This was just as fun as the last montage, but way more hard since we had to gather clips, sound effects, AND music. But, I wanted to use just the sound effects, for a more unnerving, isolated feeling in my Capital Corruption montage. But, the rest was pretty hard, since we had to nut down the footage to fit the twenty second time limit, and to get the one part we want. The sound effects were not so bad, since they were pretty fun to listen to. But, alas, I couldn't turn into the deadline, and can't show the video for the montage, again. The video is done, but I have to go ALL THE WAY back in the history to find each clip's exact web address to cite, it's also in the school computer, oops. Well, we must research now. So, let's research... sound in movies, because that is what we are doing, sound in movies. I already did this concept in one of the first presentations we did in the year, which, I think, is still in the "my works" tab. So, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, and people were like "Hey, why don't we just have this along with pictures to make a more (literally) cinematic experience?" Well, they did, after each the phonograph and the movie were successful by themselves, AND after they figured out how to sync each, and made one of the first "talkies," "The Jazz Singer." After a LOT of development, it became not just an industry standard, but a basic component of film today. So, what did we learn?
http://www.wonderstruckthebook.com/essay_silent-to-sound.htm https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10286252 A tiny little shot of a clip I used that I snipped from Videezy,
I know it's small, but my mom is waiting for me to finish Wow, a non-school post that isn't the week before the EoQ check, this is insane. So, I take Media & Design II, and we recently turned in our pictures we had to take, and I liked them so much, that I decided to make a blog post about them. I don't know if they count as digital media, but I already have a couple of assignments to upload to the selected works tab. So, in this shot I try to go for a 'lost and unsure" sort of feeling, as evident by darkness, confused face, and dutch angle(ayy). This shot shows a sort of "not feeling it" face in a bright, but not exactly happy, light. This shot reminds me of the, I can't believe I'm going to say this, "say boy aesthetic" because of the contrast. Although, I didn't plan for it to look like this, but may as well go with it. This one may be hard to see, but if you turn up your brightness, you could see a face, which is my face. It's a funny story how this was made, I asked my friend, Jack, to take a picture of me looking through a window to go for a nice shot of me thinking. But, because the old school windows were so foggy, it the filter Jack put on, and the fact he took so long, that I was rolling my eyes in the shot, it turned into a ghost photo. So, I made a new role, the odd, "insider looking out" sort of person, even though, that label is a little embarrassing.
So, hopefully I get a sort of good grade for this, I only have an eighty seven in M&DII right now. Well, I finally uploaded the color montage to YouTube. We also made a poster for camera angles, to prove we know what each angle is. But, I had to take a while finding each of the camera angles, because I don't want to take any old shot that I could find by looking up camera angle. But, it was worth it because I'm proud of what I got. But, after that we had to make a short montage using ACTUAL montage with ACTUAL clips instead of still shots. This little project also took a while, as I really want the final product to be really cool, instead of take a generic theme like "love" or "darkness." So, I took a different theme that's more of a subject of "capitalism" as a sort of term that could be taken many ways. So, let's research a topic, maybe a montage? The first montage of literal cutting of film was from Sergei Eisenstein, there are other origins of editing. But, like colors in film, there are many developments and different approaches to this development. So, Eisenstein's method was the one that made the most sense, even though D.W Griffith made the first techniques that were consciously made to affect the film emotionally. Eisenstein still DEFINED that editing made a film, and made the Soviet Theory of Montage. He also looks the part for "Mad Genius That Made History." Well, we learned...
nofilmschool.com/2014/02/video-the-history-of-editing-eisenstein-the-soviet-montage-explained https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/montage/ Here's the video that took SO LONG to upload
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