48 hours

the 48 hour video race was fun. I used my girlfriends digital still camera and shot in movie mode. the footage looked very nice but the hard thing was focusing on my subject...a little frog.
For stills, it has a macro feature...but unfortunately it doesn't have that feature in video mode. i liked the classes projects especially the ones in which the blocks were very much a part of the story...evidence that the story and video was thought up and shot after the mystery props were revealed.
the blocks as a mystery prop worked out great...and for future props, anything from the dollar store toy section would work out good.

The screening party was lots of fun. however, it was disappointing that the neighbors complained about the noise and that we had to limit the volume on the screenings and performances.

Yesmen & editing

The Yesmen DVD clips we watched in class made me want to pull some sort of international pranks like that... in fact since watching them, i have been thinking about websites i could i buy now while the person or corporation is small and either sell it for a bunch of money or tamper with their lives. Its encoraging that they were never arrested for any of the stuff we saw them do. I do wonder about what the reaction of the real WTO is. Ive been looking around for the DVD so i can watch the rest of the stuff.

The rhythmic edits came out good. a couple things i noticed that I liked in several of them are a variety of shots. high, low angles, long, medium and close ups. also various locations added another variety of shots to the mix so almost nothing was repeated. It was. It was cool to see everyone's daily lives sped up and cut together very fast and rhythmically.

I just finished and exported my 48 hour video race video. It came out OK...I always have a better image of things in my head, and sometimes that image is unreachable so im learning to let go and accept. Im excited to see how the rest of the class used their blocks my guess is that a lot of people (including me) spelled something out with the 3 letters...just a guess.

Its sad that the semester is over and the class aswell. I enjoyed this class so very much because of all the projects and hands on learning we were able to experience. I learned a lot and have a couple films I plan to submit to the Student Screening.

Post Thanksgiving Screening

In preperation for our 48 hour video race, before thanksgiving my roommates and I decided that we should each make films to screen after thanksgiving. In our films, we had to include the line of dialog, "watch out for that Axe". I didnt bring a camera home, i used a program that records whatever is on your screen... this is what was on my screen... The Golden AXE
In the end, none of my roommates finished their films...but Annie made her first film and what i nice film it is.

http://anniesegrest.blogspot.com/2007/11/few-days-before-thanksgiving-break.html