Hello! I'm taking photos again! I haven't in a while because I've been really busy! I've almost completed postproduction of another test video I'm making. The video is the first time I've shot something using a Canon and the first time I've color graded! I'm almost done I just need to find the sound effects to add to the video and then I shall upload! I've also began preproduction on a music video and a larger action movie! I'm assembling a fig rig and such for more video production! These photos were taken due to a fog machine, which created interesting lighting. I love the hand shot because it is so high in contrast! I hope you enjoy it!
FOR A HIGHER QUALITY VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/49097387 This is the first time I have ever used special effects in any of my videos. It was a very interesting process! First off, this video is meant to be more of a proof of concept video over an actual short film. There's a reason for this: I am starting a film production crew on my floor, the film floor. We will begin pre-production on our first actual short film most likely next week. But for now here is the story behind this film. I was talking to my RA and somehow the conversation got into making short films. We briefly talked about a short film that we could create but that involved a lot of special effects and I was unsure if I could do them. Later that day I got a few people together and my camera to make a effects test. I was the camera man and a co-director. My friend Sam was the other co-director and I made all the effects. We did a couple of rehearsals so we could get the action scene choreographed and so we could figure out the shots. We had no script, and we initially went into it expecting it to be just an effects test. However, a little narrative formed as a set up. The shoot took about an hour, including rehearsals and blocking the shots. We got all of it shot and I went straight into editing. I had two main effects to do in this video: the gunshot and the lightsabers. I did the lightsabers first because I thought they would be the most challenging, so I had my roommate show me how to do them and I key framed them in. My roommate was by far the biggest help in this video for showing me how to use After Effects. The masking was the most difficult part for me and by far the most time consuming. After that I did the gunshot, which is the effect I'm most proud of. No masking involved but I motion tracked the smoke when I panned the camera. After all the effects I exported it and uploaded it, and on my computer it is exported in HD but when I uploaded it to youtube it seems to only show up with a max resolution of 480. That's why I put the vimeo link as well, since it ended up being of higher quality.
So club rush was today at my college. Guess what? There's no photography club! Of any kind! So I'm trying to get a group of people together to try to make one! The worst thing that could possibly happen is that I get a group of people together and take photos. Which I did yesterday! These photos are spawn from that adventure. It was a lot of fun. There's a gigantic garden area with plants, turtles, ducks, and alike near where my dorm is so I shall be going very often! One of my friends took a photo of me taking a photo of a small leaf, which is the first one in the gallery
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