If anyone is interested in seeing other video projects I have been working on outside of Mediaworks, there is a compilation of all of them under this extended entry. They are ordered chronologically.
Pandemic is the first video I edited together after the acquisition of my neat tiny 3ccd camcorder. It just features combined footage from around my old home in Whale Pass, in Southeast Alaska, combined in a witty and somewhat interesting way. This was edited in Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. The first bit of music is by “End” from their cd “the sounds of disaster” – 04 – ruin anyone anywhere anything. The next sample of music is track 03 – “countdown to the end”, from the same cd. The sound at the very end is a clip from track 03 “destination sexy”, from Cex’s self-titled cd.
Continuing my tradition of excellent and perceptive titling, Flayinbombentrail represents my first experience editing in Avid Xpress Pro 4.6. Always the ascetic, I decided it would be a good experience for me to abandon the comfortable fuzzy interface of Premiere and see what a real GUI was like. Needless to say, I spent a good 10-12 frustrated and painful hours on this one 2 minute video, but I learned alot. There isn’t much in the way of content in this, but it could be construed as interesting just the same. Thusly, this esteemed artsy video was laid out over the excellent track 01 – Ashtray, from edIT’s release “Crying Over Pros For No Reason”.
Meatonyny is a collage of life during the summer months at my home in Whale Pass, Alaska, edited entirely in Avid Xpress Pro. This edit was significantly easier because of my previous experience with editing Flayinbombentrail in Avid Xpress Pro. It is also my first successfully executed 30i to 24p converted video. Woo! this could probably be classified as long and boring, and thus is an excellent representation of my summer months of 2005. Set fittingly to the repetetive and ominous Autechre: Amber – 11 – Teartear.
Consummate is a technical experiment with a rosy heart of fermented cabbage. The title is somewhat wittily ironic in context of the subject matter of a person endlessly eating and uneating a plate of food. Inspired by the cloning of Nicholas Cage in Adaptation, and armed with my “bulletproof” concept, and a method of carrying it out in After Effects, I set out for the Co-Op and bought some imitation hamburger product made of soy and things (myself being a pecto-vegetarian). Despite storyboarding and thinking this shoot through extensively, it is far from perfect, as is evident when I reach accross the table to dump my uneaten meat onto the other me’s plate. Someday it will be redone to perfection.
Vilem Boletum (Latin for tawdry mushroom) was shot as an improvisational video in one Wed. night of fall Mediaworks lag. The rough story is as follows: a guy goes to strange Evergreen Soup party, and is offered some mushroom tea, which he reluctantly accepts. Strangely surrealistic adventures ensue.
This is obviously technically flawed to an extreme, but I love the rough approach and surrealist moments of clarity. The sound effects were all created in Propellerheads Reason 3.0 by myself. I am obviously a novice to an extreme.
Grotesquity was a small independant project further exploring my identification with Suffering Bob, as being autobiographically representational of myself. The aspect of recursive spectatorship inherent in the process of creating self-portrayal is emphasized in the method of cutting, and symbolized with the presence of audio and video feedback. Enough is said.
Other Independant Projects
If anyone is interested in seeing other video projects I have been working on outside of Mediaworks, there is a compilation of all of them under this extended entry. They are ordered chronologically.
Pandemic
Pandemic is the first video I edited together after the acquisition of my neat tiny 3ccd camcorder. It just features combined footage from around my old home in Whale Pass, in Southeast Alaska, combined in a witty and somewhat interesting way. This was edited in Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. The first bit of music is by “End” from their cd “the sounds of disaster” – 04 – ruin anyone anywhere anything. The next sample of music is track 03 – “countdown to the end”, from the same cd. The sound at the very end is a clip from track 03 “destination sexy”, from Cex’s self-titled cd.
Flayinbombentrail
Continuing my tradition of excellent and perceptive titling, Flayinbombentrail represents my first experience editing in Avid Xpress Pro 4.6. Always the ascetic, I decided it would be a good experience for me to abandon the comfortable fuzzy interface of Premiere and see what a real GUI was like. Needless to say, I spent a good 10-12 frustrated and painful hours on this one 2 minute video, but I learned alot. There isn’t much in the way of content in this, but it could be construed as interesting just the same. Thusly, this esteemed artsy video was laid out over the excellent track 01 – Ashtray, from edIT’s release “Crying Over Pros For No Reason”.
Meatonyny
Meatonyny is a collage of life during the summer months at my home in Whale Pass, Alaska, edited entirely in Avid Xpress Pro. This edit was significantly easier because of my previous experience with editing Flayinbombentrail in Avid Xpress Pro. It is also my first successfully executed 30i to 24p converted video. Woo! this could probably be classified as long and boring, and thus is an excellent representation of my summer months of 2005. Set fittingly to the repetetive and ominous Autechre: Amber – 11 – Teartear.
Consummate
Consummate is a technical experiment with a rosy heart of fermented cabbage. The title is somewhat wittily ironic in context of the subject matter of a person endlessly eating and uneating a plate of food. Inspired by the cloning of Nicholas Cage in Adaptation, and armed with my “bulletproof” concept, and a method of carrying it out in After Effects, I set out for the Co-Op and bought some imitation hamburger product made of soy and things (myself being a pecto-vegetarian). Despite storyboarding and thinking this shoot through extensively, it is far from perfect, as is evident when I reach accross the table to dump my uneaten meat onto the other me’s plate. Someday it will be redone to perfection.
Vilem Boletum
Vilem Boletum (Latin for tawdry mushroom) was shot as an improvisational video in one Wed. night of fall Mediaworks lag. The rough story is as follows: a guy goes to strange Evergreen Soup party, and is offered some mushroom tea, which he reluctantly accepts. Strangely surrealistic adventures ensue.
This is obviously technically flawed to an extreme, but I love the rough approach and surrealist moments of clarity. The sound effects were all created in Propellerheads Reason 3.0 by myself. I am obviously a novice to an extreme.
Grotesquity
Grotesquity was a small independant project further exploring my identification with Suffering Bob, as being autobiographically representational of myself. The aspect of recursive spectatorship inherent in the process of creating self-portrayal is emphasized in the method of cutting, and symbolized with the presence of audio and video feedback. Enough is said.