Self portrait

For my self portrait I will be really putting myself out there and showing who I am as a person that struggles with social situations and a brain that can never focus on one thing and never stops. My idea for this is as follows:

I start by waking up alone in my apartment then leaving my apartment and getting lost in some sort of crowd or sea of people. I will then show a close up of myself looking scared and sweating as I look around intensely. Then I will show a montage of "thoughts" with a lot of voice overs over one another showing how my brain works in these situations. Then my thoughts are quickly interrupted by someone saying hello to me. I then say nothing but hello back, with a nervous tone, the person then looks at me and then walks away with a look like ok??? Then it will fade into a party in which I am drunk and I will have a montage of me being social and outgoing and the person that I truly enjoy being but struggle to be when sober. The ending will be me waking up after a morning of partying to show this vicious cycle. I will probably title it Outgoing Introvert.

My concerns are just about the crowd scene I'm not sure how I will achieve what I envision for this scene without a ton of talent although I have thought about animating that part. My plan to challenge myself will be the fact that I will be acting in it. I have never done any acting but I really want to do this I think it will be a nice outlet for me.


I want to add that I just read some other peoples ideas and I think this is an amazing project not only did I begin to discover film as an outlet but I also realized that I have a lot in common with you people as far as this thing called a brain :)

Music video Role

For the music video I am the director of photography and lead director. I am excited to be filming with super 8 but even more excited to be editing the project. For my DP role I will be working with still objects and using pans and zooms to bring some movement to the frame I also will be using the macro to focus on mechanical parts of some of the objects for a cool effect. As always I am excited to see all the footage and start to piece it together in the editing lab and really bring it all to life.

Editing Experience

Editing for me was a definitely a learning experience, due to the fact that I do not have really any editing experience at all. At first I was really shy about it but the more I watched other people interact with the computer and final cut the more interested I became in editing. I think at this point I would really like to get my own mac and version of final cut and begin to really play around with editing and get really familar with it. I feel like by editing on my own time and  after I really figure it out I really think I will become really fond of editing. I can see myself making even really short pieces and editing just for fun. I really enjoy putting things together I just don't know much about the program right now but in due time I am sure to love it and it will be right up my alley.

Plans for next semester

Next semester I plan on taking some interesting and fun classes. I plan on bettering my skills in editing by taking an intro to editing class and also learning even more interesting things about film by taking some interesting genre classes and I also am trying to get into the experimental class. I am really excited about next semester because I feel like I will finally really get to broaden my knowledge of film and maybe even find out for sure what it is that I want to do in the film field. Even if I don't find out for sure what it is that I want to do I know that by going deeper into the major I will feel that much closer to figuring it out.

Wild Card Preproduction

crew position

I am the director of the wild card project. I'm pretty shy and I've never really done anything like being a director so it's pretty exciting and new for me. I plan to accomplish quite a bit as director, as far as the way I interact with others as well as and my film skills in general. I plan to be more talkative and let my personality and creativity out I'm pretty funny and strange I've heard and if I am able to express that in my work I'm pretty sure it will be a lot of fun. I also know that by being director I will have a better understanding of what all goes into making a film. I'm really excited about being the director of this awesome short film.                                                                                                                

Sound recording

I really enjoy sound so this assignment was a lot of fun for me. At first it was hard to think if different sound that would be interesting and different, but after a little bit if thinking I think I thought of some pretty neat sounds. I think my favorite one that I thought of was water dripping from a faucet into a pot of water. I'm really excited to start in the second part of this assignment.