Videography

My projects in making and editing videos from my Moving Image Design college program.

From my Media Editing 1 course I did these as projects in shot transition and camerawork.

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A (not quite complete yet) video montages project I made where the theme our instructor gave us, since movie and tv reboots were so popular, was to create a video imagining a reboot or remake of one of our favourites. I thought I'd choose one I knew well, Star Wars. To make things easier in the limited amount of time I had to make the video, I played all the characters. I had intended to use still shots hand drawn by myself for the sequences involving spaceships, but didn't have time to do so before I needed to submit my assignment, so I added in text cards describing what was happening. I still plan on adding the hand drawn stills at some point in future.

An early project from the course where, again the focus was on presenting examples of shot transition and camerawork.

Projects from my Narratives course and Capturing the Image course, these were done as narratives communicated through still images.

A video I made for my Narratives course. Originally I had planned to hand draw and colour all the stills for the story but I didn't have time to do so in the week-long course. My instructor suggested I use images from online that I would print and collage which I think I made work well in the time I had. The premise of the assignment was to create a video based on the narrative of the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme, which I thought I would give a sci-fi/fantasy twist. I support and love Indigenous North American culture and thought I would make the characters such in pre-industrial times. I didn't want to appropriate real names so I gave the two tribes in the story made-up ones inspired by vegetables, the Kalewa (from kale) and the Maigon (from maize, aka corn).

A video done for my Capturing the Image course (largely as a way to learn how to create narrative through photography). I shot the images with the help of two of my classmates both at the college and the house in town I rented from.

Projects from my Animation course, these explore my first experimentation with whiteboard and (briefly) paper animation.

My whiteboard animation where the assignment was to animate a favourite quote. I thought I'd chose one from one of my favourite science-fiction tv shows.

My first foray into paper stop motion animation. It's very brief since I had other assignments to do and it just needed to be long enough to show I understood the medium. I got the idea from the wizard Radagast, a character in the movies based on the book The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. Radagast cared for nature and tended to shelter birds under his hat.

All my other projects I thought were worth showing that either don't belong in a specific category or else are not yet completed. These include experimentation in camerawork and lighting, "run and gun" filmmaking and visual effects.

My final project from my Media Editing 2 course, which looked into camerawork, some brief visual effects and, I think I can safely say, my first foray into "run and gun" filmmaking. The aim of the assignment was to create a video narrative using the filming and effects techniques we'd learned that had an "out of this world" quality. I thought I would do a narrative set in a fictional future I had done some creative writing about in the past. The story is about a humanitarian agent on a desperate mission to get seedling material to a beacon so that it can be transmitted by satellite to a country in need. I believe the project is an example of run and gun filmmaking because I filmed it entirely by myself in about four hours on the college Sculpture Trail with a camera on a tripod and my cellphone camera for the closeup shots. I was able to add some visual effects with the stun gun blasts but had to submit the assignment before I could finish the rest. I'm thinking I'll add the rest later, along with a signal beam that will shoot into the sky from the beacon after the agent activates it and relay with a satellite in the orbital shot.

A project from my Art of Light and Sound course, which focused on camerawork and lighting. The aim was to portray without words an emotion which we each drew out of a hat.

An animation done in Adobe After Effects as one of my first assignments for my Media Editing 2 course. The aim was to create one with the theme of a certain holiday happening that very day.