One of the Noirest Films You'll Ever See

Let's just say you're sitting at home one day, letting your mind wander, when suddenly it occurs to you that you don't know what film noir is.  So you google it.  This is the first and only search result:



Pretty Noir, if I do say so myself.

Basically, we were put into groups and told to make a film based on an object picked completely at random.  My group chose a pair of binoculars.  As you can see, we did an excellent job of centering the story around the item.  We were also allowed to pick one genre from a list, and we elected to make a movie in the style of film noir.  We didn't really face any challenges, except maybe having to export two times because we forgot to end the music.

I learned a lot of things that will be applicable to CAP Hollywood, such as teamwork, leadership, communications, arts, critical analysis, and what have you.

Farewell for now.

Here's the video

Here's Jasper's blog

A Downtown Goof

Our most recent independent video assignment was supposed to be about life in Silver Spring.  I decided to partner up with sam, since this particular assignment was not very independent.  When we first began to film, we didn't really know what we wanted to do with the assignment, just that we wanted it to be shot in Downtown Silver Spring.  Then, out of nowhere, this happened.  Enjoy.




Shot with a Fujifilm s400, edited in Premiere Pro.  The music we used was Chacarron Macaroon by El Mundo.  The video can be found here, in case of embedding trouble.

Capturing the Fall

This week's blog post is about the "Capturing the Fall" independent video project.

I filmed it with a Fujifilm s400 and edited it in Premiere.  The shots are as follows:

1. Intro shot of feet walking through the leaves
2. Title slide
3.  Tree with yellow leaves
4. Slow dramatic zoom pan of a tree with red leaves
5. Walking through a rock outcropping
6. Dramatic zoom in on a cat staring at me
7. Panning shot of a small creek
8. Walking down the street
9. Gnome in a tree
10. Panning shot of a dead tree
11. Chopped wood
12. Man walking his dog down the street
13. Credits

I used the music I did because I wanted my film to have a melancholy tone.  Autumn signifies the end of summer and the approaching winter.  Overall, I am pretty happy with it, but I do regret that I wasn't able to upload it in HD.  It's because my current computer is slowly falling apart.  But I will be getting a new one next weekend, so my next project will be available in high resolution.

5x5

Clips used:

• Carrying amplifyer
• Carrying effects pedal 
• Carrying cord
• Carrying bass
• Turning on amp and playing bass

My 5x5 was shot with a Fujifilm s400 and edited in Adobe Premiere.  I did not run into any real problems when filming or editing.

I am pleased with how it turned out, although I went over the tie limit by about 2 seconds.

While it can be fun to make bite-sized video projects, it would be cool if our next individual project could be something bigger, like a 5 minute short or something.