this is a video assignment that tasks the video recording of a 30 second process.
there really aren’t that many cool things I could think of that are just 30 seconds and when reading the posts for this assignments i saw just about everyone said the same thing. This is my girlfriend scrap booking and I asked her what that thing you saw in the video was. For those that don’t scrap book lol (she incredibly cool so no judging lol) its a embroider for paper. it creates cool designs, i guess it works just like a press with the template and two plates. but yup, thats my 30 second process….thats closer to a minute already or I would have showed how you can use the paper to frame things. lol stay tuned ill blog about that next enjoy!
For this assignment i decided to do my documentary on the process of me drawing a flower. I am not the best at it but i thought it would be good to show others how to draw it step by step.
About a year ago I was learning how to ollie. We used to record videos so we can eventually make a skate video for funs. I then edited the videos to show my failed attempts through mpeg streamclip. I then moved it onto windows live movie maker. After that I used the publishing tool to upload the video onto youtube.
Motivation
Well Tony Hawk had to start somewhere =). I wanted to show people what NOT to do when learning how to ollie I suppose. If you are learning how to ollie it is very important to not do anything that I do in the entirety of the video until my sort of successful one at the end. Even at the end the one I did do was not very good. The biggest tip I can give is to jump and pick up your back foot so the board doesn’t awkwardly go up on the nose. Hopefully some future skaters will learn from my mistakes =0000000000.
Make a short, 30-second documentary, the topic is up to you.
No narration necessary. Show, don’t tell.
Okay so I’m being liberal with the rules for this assignment, mainly because once I had filmed all my footage there was so much that I liked and I decided to make it longer. I started on this last Thursday when filming in Ueno park. Last Tuesday I bought a new camera, Nikon d5100, which is able to film HD video. Because I really want to put together some nice videos when my friend and I go to Kyoto at the beginning of next month, I’ve decided to practice as much as I can before hand – and this is a fun assignment that let’s me do just that!
When I went to Ueno early Thursday morning, I wasn’t entirely sure what I was going to do my little film on. The park is the kind of place where you never know what you’re going to come across – like a troupe of Chinese acrobats that I walked by, sadly after my battery died (I did not expect it to go flat after only about three hours; now I know I need a back up or two for my Kyoto trip!). First I walked around a small shrine in the park, thinking I could do a short piece just on that. I also played with the idea of going to the zoo to film. As I was heading there, walking up what’s called Sakura Street – which is currently just a wide paved alle lined with bare cherry blossom trees, I spotted something that seemed out of place.
On this road, amongst all the naked branches waiting for April, there was one single tree in bloom.
This is a ?? (kanzakura), a winter sakura!
I’ve never seen one of these trees before, and apparently this particular one was the odd one out because they’re supposed to be blooming in February. (Don’t quote me on the February thing though, I just made that out overhearing conversations between the old Japanese ladies looking at the tree with me). Either way, I was so fascinated and captivated by it, that I decided it would be my subject for the short little film.
Now, I haven’t really mastered the art of steady hand-held shooting, so sorry for the shakiness of some of it. Edited in iMovie (cue giggles from anyone who actually works with filmmaking), cutting probably twenty minutes of footage? Changed the brightness, contrast and saturation a bit too, and added music: Il Secondo Giorno by Air.
…I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am for sakura season now!
Make a short, 30-second documentary, the topic is up to you. Some good ideas include:
*How to make something
*What someone’s job is like
*What it’s like trying something new
*Show yourself doing something you are terrible at
*Show yourself doing something you are AMAZING at
No narration necessary. Show, don’t tell.
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo by Pcora: http://flickr.com/photos/pedro/40243309/
enjoy!
