Short Narrative: "Believe"
This video was created for my Telecom 5250 class for my Final Thesis in 2002. I attempted to create a short narrative for my thesis project. I originally started thinking about the project in the summer time. I wanted to create something that required thinking and go against the norm from other projects at school. Hopefully this will come across to the viewer. I produced, wrote, directed, shot and edited the piece. It took about 4 weekends to shoot, and about three weeks of editing. I wanted to some how integrate animation and video. I thought that it would be hard, but it turned out to be harder than I thought. I also wanted to give the video a film look, and also a surrealistic look to it and that required a lot of rendering time. The total amount of rendering for my 7:23 minute project was around 25 hours. This was an incredible amount of time and it was limiting in some way because I wouldn't want to go back and try something new because it would take so long. But I think the coloring effects, and special effects adds to the video, and it would be a lot different if it didn't have them.
I have permission to use all of the music and that will be very helpful in putting it out in the film festivals. If I could go back and do things over, I would like to have had more help with the process. I think some of the writing could be cleaned up, and I wish that I had more time to think about continuity instead of having to direct and shoot at the same time.
Overall, I think that I learned a lot from this project. I realized some of my weakness, but that will help me in the future. I enjoy narrative pieces a lot and it has been good to work on it, in light of doing so much corporate education production at work.
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Short Narrative: "The Mask "
This short narrative / music video is about a girl who goes through life with a lot of diffuculities and hardships. She latter finds out that there is an answer for her problems.
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