Personal Breakthrough

After editing my script for the fiction piece for class I realized something about myself that I have never noticed before. I love drama. I loved working on dramatic pieces during high school, movies that are really dramatic in nature have always been my favorite, and I loved writing the script I wrote for this class. Granted, the piece I wrote for this class had some personal relevance, but it really just spilled out of me. I chose to share this personal breakthrough with you all through a video on The Notebook, which in my opinion is one of the best movies I have ever seen. Enjoy!

Old Animation

I chose this video today because I was thinking about all the awesome editing tools we have now in Vegas 8.0, and that got me thimking about what it took to get there. The first thing I thought about was animations, because for many of us our first exposure to film was something animated. For many people from older generations their definition of animation is very different than ours. While this is very different than filming real people I think it is relevant because it shows how far we have come on technology. This clip is of Mickey Mouse in 1929. I hope you enjoy.

I chose to post this video today because I went to the movies the other night and realized how many different camera angles, different sound, and different lighting goes into just making the previews for the movies. I realize the previews are made after most of the shooting is done, but previews are typically like 30 seconds to a minute long. They have to snag our interest and keep it long enough for us to not only watch the preview, but remember it so we can watch the movie when it comes out. As an active movie watcher I am really beginning to realize how much the technical pieces of shooting a film directly corelates to the audiences interest level and overall reaction to the piece.

Class on Wednesday reminded me my days at my high school when we did Beauty and the Beast. I was a techie in the production, so I worked with lights, sound, costumes and props. I truly loved being involved in this particular play in high school because I believe it was the best play we did in the four years I was there. On Wednesday when we were experimenting with the lights it reminded me of the intense effort it took for all of our theatre group (about 60 people or so) to get everything just right. This is the woman who was the voice of Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast, the Disney version. I hope it brings back some memories for you too.

While I was doing some research on our candidates for the 2008 election I came across this video. I chose to watch it because I love to hunt and fish and I wanted to know the stance John McCain took on one of my favorite hobbies. I got the information that I needed but I was really distracted by the camera angles the camera man was trying to achieve! He was constantly switching from a close up shot to a wide shot and it drove me crazy!

This sound track is actually taken from A Walk to Remember, which is my absolute most favorite movie in the entire world. Its a total chic flick, so I wouldn't reccomend it for the guys, but for the girls it is awesome. I thought it would be cool to post something from my favorite video, because I am currently enrolled in a video production class and the last time I watched this I definitely was more aware of the camera angles than I was before. I realized how much the camera angles truly have an effect on your emotions. Without the right angles this movie had the potential of really sucking.

I chose this video today because I am developing an interest in archery. I have been a hunter for most of my life and was barely introduced to archery. The main difference that I have noticed so far between archery and shooting a gun is that archery requires a much more precise aim , and ultimate hit in order to get an animal down. Hunting is not about injuring an animal and then having it suffer because you, as a hunter made a bad shot. This video shows me some of the possible "shots" I may encounter while walking through the woods, and gives me an idea of what I need to practice for and expect in the wild.

Wow! This video is interesting because typically animals don't understand when people are trying to help them, and rather than the moose trying to attack the rescue workers after they helped him he just stood there! Maybe animals understand more than we think they do.