Found III

Here is the third installment of my "found" video.

I received alot of feedback on Thursday and here are two things I plan on doing:

1. Creating a Blog with all of my found material...keeping it hush hush at the moment.

2. Keep the main video short with some changes.

I am pleased with the progress so far and I look forward to refining the video and working on a blog to share the creative process.

I am taking some advice I recieved in class and I am not showing everything I have done from this point on, maybe little bits but the majority is hush hush. Until next time...

Production Video CLip

I figured that since I was making a movie, I needed a production company name and since I now have a name, I needed a catchy video to promote my work, so here goes!

The Final Project II

Okay...here is the second attempt:



I used the JPEg image from Shannon kind of like a sticker to place over the blurred NCOW image in my original movie, however, the image is a little different each time and the image seems to pulsate...did anyone notice? I think that I may have to re-do the images, making sure there is no flash screwing things up. I have also been thinking about adding another title slide right after the still shots with a caption that says "So what have we been writing?" then show casing a few individual cards and their messages. So my big question is what does everyone think? Should I redo the images? Should I make a title slide with the what have we been writing question? I will hopefully post again with a third attempt soon...with individual shots and better footage for the last shot.

Free Culture and the Project

Free Culture

I finished reading the first section of Free Culture and I just want to say Love It! I have never quite understood the big deal about sharing music et al? In the 80's we made mix tapes and taped songs from the radio, in the 90's I did the same thing just with cd's...is it really different then finding it on-line?

The Project

I will be working on manipulating images tonight and tomorrow before class...hopefully with better results to show-off.

First Attempts- The Found Project

Here is what I wanted to show everyone in Class.

Okay, now that you've seen it...there is still a lot of work to do.

Here is my list at present:

I plan on going back in and superimposing a picture of the We Want Your Story! poster to each of the still pictures.

I want to add music to the segments before the stills...the first three frames.

I want to have voice over in the stills section.

I want to retake the end footage with out shaking the camera.

I want to add still photos of individual found comments.

I have bloopers...maybe I will post those later.

What I hope to accomplish by Thursday:

Superimposing the We Want Your Story Image.

Taking and adding the new end footage.

I think that sounds fairly reasonable...who knows what I may run into!

Neglect and New Ideas

Okay, I admit it, I have neglected my blog for the sandy beaches of Commerce, TX... actually I took a little time to reflect on my project and I wanted to give everyone the heads-up here. I want to begin my movie with video of me putting up my found boards, and then move in a different direction for the filling-up of the boards. I am going to take a little creative license and using a digital camera to make still shots of each paper placed on the board, filling up one board as a representation and placing all of the images in movie maker and speeding them up...Does that make sense? I am hoping to have these images by Thursday. I have a few ideas for the beginning and the ending but I will keep those veiled for now.

Video Sentence

Maybe more of an exercise in random thought...