Storyboard for How to video

I now plan on shooting two shots in the white room.  One will be-

 "You know how to sell a chicken to a deaf person?"

and the other will be-

"HEY, YOU WANNA BUY A CHICKEN?"

I'd like to show these videos side by side.

For wardrobe I plan on wearing a plain white t-shirt and either tan or blue pants.

 

NEW instructional video outline!

I now plan to shoot at the shell.  I am going to have multiple angles. 

Starting with over the shoulder shot to view writing on tablet.

Next I will shoot the deaf person.

More text.

Then close ups and ending with zoom out.

Instructional video outline

I'm going to show you how to-

"Sell a chicken to a deaf person."

This is a very simple shot.  I plan on screaming- "Hey, you wanna buy a chicken?"  Although, it will be a silent video, so we'll get the perspective of a deaf person.  I'll then cut to different steps via powerpoint and back to video shots.

After the test shoot in the location I had planned to use, I'm not sure that it is the right setting.  I've been trying to think of the best location for selling someone a chicken, but haven't come up with anything yet.  I guess I could try and find a chicken farm or outside/inside of a grocery store. 

Strange bike safety

So I posted this awesome/creepy video about bicycle safety in a link on the right---->

The kids are all wearing monkey masks.  I guess because they're monkeying around on their bikes.  Anyway, I was really intrigued by the scratches on the film and the washed out color.  The kids faces are the best part by far.  I also posted 2 Martin Arnold videos.  They are amazing.

White Balance

White Balance is the measure of light and temperature.  The different colors are gauged on degrees of heat light, or Kelvins.  Depending on what type of mood lighting one wants for a scene the white balance is key.  

When viewing video, the whitest lights are composed of a multitude of different brightly colored lights.  However our eyes read them as white light.  Sunlight typically makes white light look blue, artificial light makes white light look orange, and fluorescent light makes white light look green.  The white balance can completely change the feel of a scene.

Genre Film

I choose the Western genre.  I've never been particularly fond of westerns, but when I read the description of the Western genre I become intrigued.  The Western typically portrays the conquering of nature by civilization.  Westerns also emphasize honor instead of the law.  They also tend to focus on nomadic people such as a cowboys and outlaw gangs.  

What really got my interested was the categorization of such films as No Country for Old Men and Die Hard as being westerns.  So I choose The Proposition.  This film is set in Australia in the late 1800's.  The English are trying to civilize the land and in doing so the local police in a small town are trying to capture the Burns gang.  Two of the gang members are captured and in order to catch the third, the police keep one gang member and set the other free to go kill the third.  The nomadic lifestyle of the gang as well as the effort to civilize the land by the police are dead giveaways for the Western genre.

This film was amazing.  The Australian landscape alone was worth the watch, but the acting and story were quite amazing too.  This film gave me a completely different opinion of what a Western can be.

Portrait "Light" Concept

I want to continue using my theme on human creation/evolution and the uncertainty of our origin.  I plan on using very little light and moving around the room on my hands and feet in an uncertain manner.  

The reason for very little light is to represent an inability to see where we are in the world and where we have come from.  I think a night vision view of this same type of video would also be very effective.  I want to convey a sense of uncertainty and uneasiness in one's surroundings.  

Dogma 95

I find Von Trier’s idea of what cinema should be very refreshing.  I get tired of flashy Hollywood films that are only made to rake in cash.  The stories are usually completely lost in the visual effects and bad acting.  Stories can be told simply and without all of the packaging that most films seem to have.

            These dogma 95 films have a documentary feel to them, although I recognized several of the actors in Julien Donkey-Boy, I felt they portrayed their characters very realistically.  However there is one part of the manifesto I’m not sure I agree with.  It says, “The “supreme” task of the decadent film-makers is to fool the audience.  Is that what we are so proud of?  Is that what the “100years” have brought us?  Illusions via which emotions can be communicated?”  Isn’t that what artists’ do though?  According to Plato, artists are deceivers.  So why can’t film be deceiving?  The act of looking at a flat image on a screen is itself a deception.

            Other than the whole “illusion” thing, I am really interested in this type of filmmaking.  I feel like The Vow of Chastity is great.  It’s like a set of basic rules you must follow and I feel like all art needs rules, otherwise it is untrained and ignorant.  It’s like breaking things down to its simplest form before exploring them to their fullest potential.     

Place Write Up

My work deals with evolution and what separates humans from animals.  Walking upright is one of the main differences that makes us what we are.  My video displays my feet moving through different places.  I began to think about these places and how they are different when I am moving through them.  I also thought about how I sort of felt like a different person in each place I moved through. 

 I found it somewhat difficult to keep the camera still while walking.  I'm pleased with the results, but when viewing the video in a large format, the quality is very poor.  I think if I had better equipment I could make a pretty nice piece out of this project.  I would actually like to travel around the world and do something like this.

Place Video