Black motion and action

The color that I choose to do was black, mostly because it is my favorite color. What I did was video a person that I know in a club who would sometimes act silly sometimes. When I was at the club I decided to video tape his actions and movement to show how he feels sometimes and how he would standout to get attentions. The types of movements that I got was a left, and right, and zoomed in moment of him. I also got some action movement of how he would act and display his own types of movement

Orange In Motion

My short film Orange In Motion is about the color orange, flames, and a cat. I was initially hesitant to include any cats in my short, but then I remembered what I was taught in MTD 1: The internet is made out of cats. Seeing how this film will only be viewed via the world wide web, I felt justified placing two cat shots in it. Thankfully my cat is very orange.
I wanted to tie the various shots together with something other than color, so I chose a repeating shot of an orange candle to alternate between disparate shots. While there was no attempt made at story telling, I feel that the use of flame and the color orange, combined with the excellent public domain soundtrack created by Rutger Muller, do impart a hint of emotion, perhaps even a since of urgency. All shots feature movement ranging from human and animal movement to mechanical and light movement.


All footage taken by Jesse Walsh unless noted

The shots are as follows:
1. Top of orange candle and flame (light and flame movement)
2. Orange cat with pumpkin hat meowing (animal movement)
3. Orange lighter being lit (human and mechanical movement)
4. Orange toy airplane rolling toward camera (mechanical movement)
5. Orange candle in mirror
6. Orange shirt over battery powered sander spinning on wood floor (circular movement)
7. Orange candle and flame side shot dark
8. Orange fridge magnet
9. Orange candle top shot
10. Orange leaf falling
11. Orange lighter being lit
12. Orange race car doing burnouts *from YouTube
13. Orange candle top shot
14. Orange cat chasing orange ball
15. Inside of a toaster

Video Montage project

For my video, I chose the color blue. Originally I was going to go with purple, but I thought about some really cool shots I could do with the color blue, so I changed colors. To me, blue is a very calm, relaxing colors, so I tried to take shots and find videos that were a bit slower to give a feel of that calmness. In a lot of the shots, I used videos of liquid moving. Blue is often related to liquids, such as water (though the blue liquid in the shots that I actually took is either Mountain Dew or soap), and liquids make shapes that are interesting to look at when they move. A couple of the shots are only supposed to emulate liquid movement, like the shot of the teal sheet moving. In regards to types of movement, there is camera movement in the shots of my dorm room, which is conveniently blue. A lot of the movement is either abstract or environmental motion. There is technically a bit of human motion in the shot of the sheet, as the motion was created by me grabbing the end of the sheet off camera and shaking it. There is also a bit of animal motion in the clip of the whale towards the end of the video. I did use a bit of editing, but it was mainly just mirroring or rotating the clip. One or two of the clips were a bit too fast to fit with the theme, so I slowed them down a bit. At first, I wasn't going to have sound. After watching the video through a couple of times, I decided that it really needed some sort of sound. I cannot even begin to say how tempted I was to use this song, but it's copyright material and wouldn't really fit with the calmness theme, so I didn't use it. Instead I grabbed a general ambiance track from a list of resources I have bookmarked on my computer.

Some of the shots that I was planning on doing didn't work out as well as I had hoped. It turns out that it's really hard to get ink out of a ballpoint pen to get runny enough to drip onto paper or into a glass of water.

List of shots:

1. Particle animation from Youtube

2. Me shaking a blue sheet

3. Pendulum video from Youtube

4. Slow mo wave video from Youtube

5. Mountain Dew pour

6. Mountain Dew pour (mirrored)

7. Dorm room (left)

8. Soap into water (upside down)

9. Slow mo wave from Youtube (mirrored)

10. Dorm room (right, not edited)

11. Ink in water from Youtube

12. Blue whale video form Youtube

Assignment 1: Blue is everwhere

Blue was choosing for the project because it’s one of primary colors and can’t be duplicated by others colors. In my first scenes I used my hand as an example of human motion. I changed the color of the scene to make it part of a theme in my video. I made it more abstract to make the viewer see only the hand and not the background of the footage. The title scene is next it has my name as the credit it the real footage starts. When I first got the assignment I was thinking of what color will be my theme. As I was going to school I saw the garbage truck and decided the theme will be blue. I film the garbage truck and as I was done I saw the plane in the sky next to the sun the plane got to close to sun and I had to shield my eyes and ended the footage.

The beer bottle and broken glass was a way to show even litter has the color blue in it. Majority of humans don’t think about what colors the see every day because it human nature to adapt and not think about it. But toddler and new born baby are trying to comprehend all these colors they are seeing on the regular to get an understanding of the world that revolves around them. The bus was a good example to show how I didn’t even think about how I was surrounded by blue as film everything I pass.

RED Montage

I chose different details of my own daily life for this video, with a definitive Red color theme.  I tried having the camera be as still as possible for a majority of the shots, mainly because I wanted to capture motion in front of the lens instead of creating it.  A couple of the sequences are actually pictures that I took in sequence, then added to the video in seemingly appropriate areas.

There wasn't much of an overarching theme to the clips, much of it is simply meshing them together.  Some meaning can definitely be brought out of the clips though, especially once I begin showing graffiti on a curb; "An eye for an eye-", shots of Spiderman's eyes on a RedEye dispenser, "-makes the world go blind", with a fade-out from a sign for "Vision."  A couple others are also thrown in there, such as the ascending staircase before the time-lapse of water turning red is through.


I used very minimal special effects for the video, save the title screen.  The vision fade-out is how my camera captured the scene in the first place, probably due to light adjustment.  The only effects I did use were for making certain scenes go faster, such as the time-lapse of water turning red.  I doubt many people would find a 20 minute video of that kind of thing to be very interesting.

Assignment 1 (Video Editing/Montage)

For this assignment I decided to shoot a video of my cat. My cat is the main focus of this video with my voice being heard constantly in the background. I shot this video with my computer’s web camera. I didn’t add any other audio than the sound of my voice. In the original video before I edited it, I was trying to get my cat, Juju, to move around. She was being very stubborn and had very little movement. But with the editing that I editing I did in the video it makes it look like that she did a lot of moving around. The reason why I chose the video to be focused on her is because I thought it would be different than using an actual person. With a person, you can control their movement and tell them what to do and say and they’ll understand you. With an animal such as a cat, you can’t always control what they do unless they’re trained. In this case, my cat wasn’t trained and didn’t want to move like I wanted her to, so I was forced to use a lot of editing to make it appear that way. As far as the color I decided to use just one instead of changing it. I felt like using different versions of the colors would involve too much cutting around to new clips. While the video is shot in a bronze like color my focus is pretty much black (one of the colors on my cat). At some points the color of the video does change back to its natural self which was out of my control. Apparently I could only add one effect to each scene. I also reversed some of the videos as well especially where it repeats one scene for a few times. There is one example of camera motion in the video but it is very brief. Then of course at the end of the video I gave credit to myself.

VIDEO MONTAGE

Making a montage sounds simple, but with the criteria for making the video it was it made a little difficult. It was still fun filming random situations and I almost got hit with a plastic ball. In my mind I just wanted to finish this project, but I didn't have anyone to help me out till my cousin and brother came home. I asked them if they could help me out with the video. I was soon just try finding random things that they could use, which I found a plastic bat and plastic ball so I told them just play a game and I’ll record them. Once that shot was done I saw plastic bag and recorded it right away before the bag hits the fence. Then I told my cousin to throw a few beanbags in the air till I feel I got the shot, but since the bags go so fast I have to put slow motion on that part of the montage. Since there was a good amount of wind I decided to film the tree in my backyard since, leafs of the tree were moving at a good pace for the motion montage. I still was missing some shots so I looked into youtube for the extra shots and looked at my footage and it looked boring so I looked for funny videos though it sill went with the montage criteria assignment. I just put the youtube videos in between my footage so it doesn’t seem all my footage goes first then the youtube videos are last shown. Even though this project was fun the editing wasn’t because my computer kept slowing down and I was afraid that the program might crash, but in the end it went all well.