Week 10: Weekly Photo Challenge

I choose this picture for the fact that I was with my business partner, who is also my friend, and we were networking for our website EDMnightlife.com. In this photo it is me, my business partner and the hostess for our show. This was really great because we had made a lot of contacts that night and we still have those same contacts to this day. We have made a lot of contacts through networking at various night clubs, for this night, this picture was taken by SpyOnVegas.com, even though we don’t have our own photography from that night because we were networking and not shooting footage, we were able to go into that exact club we were networking and got to shoot footage. The club that we went to was the Ghostbar which is in the Palms hotel casino. Even though this picture does not have to do with a film festival, I feel that I should post it because it is a picture that represents a business that my friend and me are starting. I could not get a picture of me at a film festival simply for the fact that I could not get transportation to a film event. I have not had a vehicle for myself for almost a year now. It is definitely hard for me to go anywhere now, with that said, I am at the mercy of relying on other people for transportation and most of the time they do not give me a ride anywhere. Me and my business partner, however, have been driving all over Las Vegas to various nightclubs. At the rate we are going, we will have permission from various clubs to shoot and get footage for our website in very little time. Its kind of scary actually knowing the fact of how things are going smoothly.

Week 9: Weekly Photo Challenge

I choose this picture as my producer picture simply for the fact that as I was operating the camera I was also the producer as well, seeing as how we could not find a place to actually shoot this scene at a good location, my apartment (at the time) was the best option for the crew to shoot the scene. When it comes to video and film production, being a producer is not really my forte, because the basic job for a producer is all the paper work and in the video production I am not good at that at all. When it comes to video production my strong point is in the post production side of video production. My strong points are in editing and in motion graphics. Being an editor it gives me even better skills when I am actually shooting the scene with a camera, it helps me decide on what kind of shots that I would need in order to have a good edit and make a good scene. This photo was taken a long time ago when the class I was in at the time were shooting the "Average Super Hero" short film. This picture does not really portray me being a producer, but it does show me working on the set and I was producing on the set at the same time.

Week 7 Weekly Photo Challenge

I choose this script because it is one of the scripts that I have worked on and plan to make into a short film, maybe even a feature film, but I know that if I go for the feature film route then the story would get changed around a lot and I wouldnt want any major changes done to my script because I think that my script is fine the way that it is, but in all honesty, the directors changes to my script might turn better than the script that is already written. I have other scripts that I have written in the past, but I choose this one for the simple fact because I think that it would be the easiest one to make into a short film or maybe even a feature film. This is a horror film about a serial killer and an innocent man is having visions of his killings and he cant figure out why. I am not very good at writing stories, let alone scripts, but when I have an idea in my head and want to make that into a film, I try my very best to tell it in a way that anybody and everybody would understand, but telling a story, or writing it for that matter, is a difficult task. When writing a script, the most important parts are to have a beginning, a middle and an end, but the hook on this script of Darkness Awaits is that the plot starts a little before the middle and after the beginning, so this story builds up the suspense in the beginning, then as the story evolves it hits the audience with a twist and that is what I think that is going to keep the audience intrigued.

Week 7 Weekly Photo Challenge

I choose this image simply for the fact that I have never made a website before and seeing as how I had used three separate programs to make this website, which consisted of Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects. I basically took a Jpeg image from my After Effects animation that I made, brought it into Photoshop, fixed it up a little bit and then brought it into Dreamweaver. It is something that I am proud of that I made because I have never made a website before and this is great for me to network myself. Now this website of mine is only a template, but it can and will be fixed up as soon as I get my real demo reel together (which I am in the process of getting together) and it will be put up on my website. For this website what I did was that I took the After Effects file that I made into a Jpeg and brought it into Photoshop. In Photoshop I did a little bit of color correction and tweaked and peaked the image a little bit, after I got done with that I then brought the Photoshop image into Dreamweaver. In Dreamweaver I basically put text onto the image of the tabs that I wanted to be made. In those tabs I made videos, took photos and made a bio of myself. Now since this is only a template and made this website last year, I have a lot more stuff to put into it, so with that said I have a lot of updating to do to my website.

Week 6 Photo Challenge

In this Photoshop picture, you see me sitting in a director’s chair directing as if I am on a movie set. I had someone take a picture of me, put it in Photoshop and basically erased everything around me and “cut” me out. I then found a picture of a director’s chair, erased everything around it as well and put the picture of the director’s chair behind the picture of me and adjusted it to where it looks like I was sitting in an actual director’s chair. I could not decide on what type of background I wanted, so I basically just went out on a limb and decided to pick a theatre stage and then put that picture behind the other two pictures. The theatre stage picture and director’s chair picture I found both on the internet. I just googled them both. I don’t think the picture turned out great simply for the fact that I do not know Photoshop that well, I know the basics of it, so I just put the picture together the best of my ability, course I should have done the altering of the picture in After Effects. I look at this picture and the only thing I can say is, this is totally not me. I don’t think that I could direct actors and what not because I have tried it before and it is something that is not my forte. My place in the video production world is, I think, behind the computer editing video footage. After making this picture and putting me in the director’s chair, I defiantly do not see me as a director.

Darkness Awaits

I choose this picture because this picture represents the poster of a script that I have written. The film is called Darkness Awaits originally the film was going to be called From Behind but when we were making the trailer for my script the other people in the production crew thought that the title would give people the wrong impression so we just changed the name. The film is a suspense horror about a serial killer who kills his victims from behind them. As he waits and lurks in the shadows, he waits for the perfect opportunity to kill his victim from behind them but the real twist in the story is that the killer is only part of the plot. The mainly focuses on another person who going through a very hard stage of insomnia, every time he tries to go to sleep he always gets these visions in his head of a person that is going to die. The problem for him is that he only see’s the back of the victims head so he cant really identify who the person is that has died or is going to die. It has gotten so bad for him that he is starting to see these visions even when he is awake, so he ends up seeing a psychiatrist about his problem. As it turns out he finds that what he is seeing is everything through the killers eyes right before the killer claims his next victim. I don’t think that I should say anything else about this story due to the fact that I do not want anyone to steal it.

Commercial

For this commercial I have chosen a Wrigley’s gum commercial. In this commercial a woman goes up to a vending machine, puts money in and tries to get some gum from it. The machine takes her money and she proceeds to walk away. One of her fellow co-workers stops her and tells her that she cant settle for that, she needs to fight the vending machine and get her gum. After she tries to get the gum out of the vending machine, the man tells her that she is not doing it hard enough and that she needs to show that vending machine who is boss. As she starts getting more and more violent with the vending machine, she keeps hitting and hitting it with the man at her side screaming at her and “pumping” her up. When she finally has gotten pumped up enough, she get so violent with the vending machine that she breaks the glass and has knocked over the vending machine. She now has a smile on her face because after she has knocked over and broke the vending machine, she now has her gum. As she take a piece of gum out of the pack, she puts it in her mouth and chews and walks off camera. This is a commercial that I wrote for my Commercial Script Writing class awhile back. I first decided to write this commercial when my money was taken from me when I tried to buy something from a vending machine, it wasn’t gum but I had to pick a product at the time so I picked Wrigley’s gum. I haven’t done anything with the idea of this commercial yet, besides having the script and everything else, the only thing I have left to do is shoot it, but I think it would be kind of difficult to find a vending machine that I could destroy.

Picture 2

This picture represents how I work on post production. Although in the film industry I work in not just post production, but also in pre production and also in the filming process itself. Most of the stuff that I work on in post production is editing and special effects. Mostly working in Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects, post production takes up a lot of time (which is probably one of the reasons why it takes so long for a movie to come out) but as I edit and do motion graphics, I find it is a lot of fun. As I have worked on a real movie set before, I find that I would have to put in at least 12 hours a day (on a good day) and then after that would have to put in probably another five hours of work in post production, but that is ok because it is fun and this is what I am going to school for. If someone wants me to edit something or put in some motion graphics, they always want it done a certain way, they want this, they want that and I try to accommodate them doing it for them, but that just takes more and more time for me to put in, but that's just the way it goes.