Rate Projects

1. My favorite project we did by far was the rhythmic editing project. By heart I am a natural editor and love piecing together footage. I also love to edit music videos especially. I have lots of experience with filming and editing music videos in the past so this project felt like very familiar territory to me. I also love creating my own music so I decided to make a song specifically for this project to help tie together my ideas I had created while shooting.

2. The video letter was second favorite project. I believe this could have been my favorite project if I would have had more time to really refine it, but I became very bogged down with other school work. This assignment was fun because it allowed you to really hone in on yourself and think introspectively.

3. The crowdsourcing project was my third favorite project because the ends result was magnificent. While I was meticulously tracing and drawing I believed that this would be my least favorite project, but the pay off was so much better than I could have ever imagined. I would most definitely want to do something this again in the future.

4. The 16mm film manipulation project was the most difficult project for me because it wasn't quite in my wheelhouse, but similar to the crowdsourcing project, the end result was very rewarding.

5. The 360 degree video was my a very fun project and I had a lot of time actually going out and shooting. I was also very happy to learn the editing process behind it so that was very cool for me as well.

6. My least favorite project was the stop motion animation project. This project was very tedious and was not my strong suit.

16 mm film manipulation

The 16mm film manipulation project was a very interesting one for me because it was completely out of my element of skill set. I am used to either filming on digital film, or slaving hours behind the computer editing footage together. So to actually have to physically use my hands to make manipulation upon raw film stock was daunting. I knew it would be an amazing experience, but entered the project quite apprehensively. The hardest part about this project was not knowing what kind of marks you were applying to the film stock. Every time I would add a new scratch mark, or apply an extra drop of bleach I just prayed that it would turn out looking alright. In the end I had a ton of fun with this project, but it was the most unfamiliar and different film technique I had ever done.

360 Video Shoot

The 360 degree video shoot was a very different approach to film making than I had ever experienced. Blocking the scenes were much different due to the camera being able to capture information from every direction. Me and Smiles pretended to be in a relationship and fought-- while on the complete other side of the scene John was chasing people down as he prepared to kill them. This was a very fun process, but also took much more precision. You needed to be able to capture what you needed all in one take or else you would have to start all over again. As far as editing went it was very cool to be able to learn a new piece of information to apply to my skills within Adobe Premiere. Once you were able to view the footage in 360 degrees, it became like any other editing job. I would love to shoot another film in 360 degrees one day and overall think it was a fun experience.