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Interpretation Project
My favorite part of the process is typically filming, but for this specific project, it was editing. I liked editing the most because I pieced together an idea through what shots I put in, and in what order. I liked making each shot 3 seconds long, and then gradually having shots become shorter until the end. It was also fun to edit over the audio I chose, which is birds chirping and nature sounds.
The hardest part was brainstorming because I was sick the day this assignment was given. It helps me think better and more clearly if I can hear what the assignment is all about from my teacher. I first tried doing something inside with a flash light and candles and I wanted to have intense music to make the video seem suspenseful, but then I realized that I preferred using natural light and I wanted to use audio that wasn’t a song. I liked the idea of using sounds of nature so that is how I started thinking about my idea.
I procrastinated for a few days because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. I kept waiting for something to come to me, and it wasn’t until Thursday when I sat down and thought hard about it, that my idea came to me.
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Life in A Day
Life in a Day
Life in a Day is a project by filmmaker Kevin MacDonald. It is made up selected video clips sent in from 80,000 people. It starts out around midnight on July 24th, 2010. The day has not broke yet. There is a scene with two drunk people discussing what day it is. The man, who is sitting on a bench, calls it “the best day ever”. The music has an essence of suspense to it. I considered the use of music in life in a day when I was making my interpretation project ,because at first I thought it was melodramatic but as the story went on, I realized it was always seamless and fitting. The music was upbeat at breakfast and intense at sunset.
I didn’t think that a film that is composed of clips from 80,000 different people would have much of a story line, but it somehow did. I think that the filmmakers achieved this by breaking peoples clips into separate sections and using them in more than one section in order to prove a point. For example, there is a man who sent in a clip, who is biking all around the world, and he shows up multiple times. We learn something from him, each time he is on screen.
One of the most moving scenes was footage of a man in the hospital who was hooked up to an oxygen mask. It is removed so he can talk, but when he starts getting emotional about how good the people in the hospital have been to him, a nurse steps into the shot to put his mask back on. This man is still so grateful, despite his undesirable circumstances. Not only is he grateful, but he had hope. Which ties into the whole theme of the movie. The ending clip is a girl saying that nothing happened to her all day, and she is sort of crying. It is storming and nearly midnight. She says she isn’t interesting enough, but she wants to be. She ends with, “and today, even though nothing great really happened, tonight, I feel as though something great happened”. It wraps up the movie perfectly, because of course something great happened on July 24th, We just watched many great things happen. I will revisit this film whenever I need some hope.
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Demo Reel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXe9ls2Kpfk&feature=youtu.be
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About Me
I grew up in a cookie cutter town just south of the Ohio river called Fort Thomas where white supremacy is masked by big, black escalades and shiny, bleached smiles. I have dark skin, dark features and tight, curly brown hair thanks to my cajun heritage. My dad is from the south of Louisiana. Think Mardi Gras. Think Beyonce. Think Swamps and alligators and country music. I am white, but for some reason, damn near everyone I have ever met thinks that I am biracial. It started when I was only 8. I was playing barbies with my friend Rebecca in her driveway. Rebecca’s dad, a crude and overweight man, was keeping an eye on us. In the comfort of his own driveway, with no other adults around, I guess Rebecca’s dad thought it would be okay to harass me. He would probe me again and again with the same question “Are you sure you aren’t black?”. He knew the answer of course, he had met my parents many times, we lived right across the street from him and Rebecca. It continued in middle school. I was at the board writing the answer to a geology question in Ms. Christy’s class when Austin Eva, a boy who was mad that I had turned down his romantic pursuits, asked in front of the whole class “Are you black?”. What I have always wondered, and wanted to say back, is why does it matter anyways?
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free write
When I first read that we were doing a free write I felt scared because sometimes my free writes can get really nitty gritty and a little too personal for the public eye however that is also why sometimes I want to share my free writes because it is some of the most honest work I do. I am trying not to stop writing, and now I am realizing that I am pretty rusty. Alright Twyla Tharp, you win; writing is definitely exercise and I am running out of breath. I am just going to describe some of my room I guess. There are two window to the right of my bed. The blinds of off white because of age and there are no curtains, which is a shame because curtains would do a lot for this room. I can’t afford frivolous things like curtains though, because I can’t even afford groceries. The starving college student thing was funny at first, but sometimes lately it feels scary. My friend Ava calls it “a new kind of poor”. Back to the windows. I have a buddha statue sitting in the window sill. Call me a poser, but I really do love the beliefs that Buddhism holds. Next to the statue is a photo of my broken family. It is me when I was four, my mom Jamie, and my dad Todd, before my brother Jack was born and before my parents got divorced. They divorced when I was in eighth grade. My mom told me about the divorce while we were sitting on our ratty old yellow and black striped couch. I remember playing with the lines on the couch while she talked, trying not to meet her eyes. I knew, even at a young age, that it was for the better, but I felt sorry for my parents because divorces are painful and messy and my dad had been sleeping on the futon in the basement for a year. Next to that picture I have a pot of fake flowers from the dollar tree in Newport. I wanted real flowers, but ironically real flowers are more expensive than fake ones. Underneath my window sill I have my Love Trumps Hate poster taped up. I got that the night that I saw Hillary Clinton speak at smaile park. I was too far away to see much of her, but when she was in my line of vision she was easy to find because she was wearing a bright red suit. I wish she was my president.
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film
The Language of Film Film and Video programs are like a language (effort at communication) The editor is the storyteller Shots as Words Individual shots are the building blocks of film language. In order to tell an effective story you must answer the who, what, where, when, why and how. Who Use a close up to answer close up- intimate portrait of someone What Typically shown with a subject performing an activity conveyed in a medium shot dramatic events can be described with active verbs 9to life, to threaten, to save) viewer should be able to focus on what the subject is doing Where can deliberately omit for a while to emphasize suspense, but not so long that the audience will grow weary can be shown through a long shot, medium long shot, or a wide shot you can hint where you are with inserts or cutaways When what period in history? how long before or after an important story event? what point in the overall story arc? show this with an extreme long shot (car stretching the highway, camels crossing the desert) shot of a clock Why the internal decision making of your subject extreme close or big close up moving inside the subjects head sequence of shots to show a backstory cu on an object or detail that has significance How not internal like the why external medium close up subject is performing an actions close ups and extreme close ups of specific actions with whom the power dynamic between people is an important story element 2-shot Full shot (FS or LS) contains the whole body bad framing to cut off a part of someone medium shot include the pelvis but not the knees medium close up (MCU) whole upper carriage traditional bust space but still can see their face the close up (CU) Tighter that MCU include the collar but not much of the shoulders emphasis on facial expression about the identity Extreme Close up (ECU) tight framing around character’s eyes, mouth, or another detail way to get inside character’s head establishing shots way to identify a location or introduce a scene most commonly WS or LS but sometimes a familiar detail can serve as an establishing shot reaction shots close up of a specific performance showing a subject’s reaction to an event takes its meaning from the shot that precedes it. inserts close ups of objects that have already been seen within a scene cutaways the subject is something that has not even seen using verbs you can do a continuity cut and time and action remains continuous jump cut where time or space are mismatched
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Twayla Thwarp
“filling this empty space constitutes my identity” “creativity is not just for artists” “everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity"
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questions
theme: music
Explain what the first concert you ever went to was like
Describe your music taste
Do you have a favorite artist
What do you listen to, to calm down
What was the first band or artist you ever really got into
Did you listen to music when you were a child
How does music affect your everyday life
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