Exercise 2: The Lumire Brothers

For this project, I had to create a minute of footage that payed homage to the lumire brothers' way of filming.  The camera had to be placed on a object so there was no shaking. Then a minute of footage that captured an action was taken. No edits were allowed to be done except for some trimming at the end.

Exercise 1: Archive footage Edits

For this first exercise I gathered footage from Archive.com and edited it using various tools in Final cut. The footage was found footage from 50s reels. I also used a music track I found from Archive.com.

 

Various filters along with layered footage and various cuts were used to try and make the video look degraded. I wanted the footage to have a possessed feel as if the cars in the background weren't suppose to be there but were haunting the viewer.

Midterm:

For my midterm I decided to do a portfoilo. I gather most of my strong piece that I felt reflected my storytelling style the best, and complied them.

 Production Log:

This photo was apart of the photo correction series. For this photo I used vibrance, levels, curves, and other correction tools to improve both the color and lighting of the photo in order to make it look more better. I also turned the lighting of the photo towards the green side in order make it look more natural.

This photo was also apart of the color correction series. For this photo I used color correction tools with the burn tool to get a more 'toasty' feel with the picture. I took this picture in this position on purpose as I liked the composition of the statue.

This photo was apart of the composition series. I took art from the buildings around campus and composited them in nature images I took myself. By doing I wished to create a mystical feel, as if the photo itself was telling a fairytale.

This photo was also apart of the composition series. I took art from the buildings around campus and composited them in nature images I took myself. By doing I wished to create a mystical feel, as if the photo itself was telling a fairytale. The fish and mermaid are apart of the same piece of artwork.

This was an original photo taken by me at night. I wanted to experiment with lighting at night so I took a photo of the small forest outside of the library. I learn a lot about correcting photos with this images and found that it is difficult to correct shadows and lighting in dark photographs. The photo will usually become grainy if you lighten the photo to much.

This was apart of the grid set. With this photo, I want to experiment with bringing non-real figures into the real world. I used my tablet to draw animals in environments similar to where they would be in real life. I found this set to be quite whimsical when I finished it and enjoyed the story each one portrayed.

Exercise 5: Masking

In this assignment the masking tool was used to composite two images together.