Ski Trip

I did my independent video challenge on a ski trip to Whitetail Ski Resort.  I used a point and shoot edited it with iMovie.  I really like the first shot where the camera comes down from the dark sky into the light, which gives it a purple pink effect.  From the lift I filmed skiers and snowboarders, and I got some good landscape shots of the rest of the mountain.  I used guitar music from free music archives.  

Capture the Fall

I uploaded two video for my meaning of fall project which are exactly the same, expect for the music.  one with the song "You're gonna miss me when I'm gone", and another with a song I found on musopens.org.  I'm not going to go into what I think about having to use creative commons music (although I may later) because that's a whole different story.    

This week I learned how to do the cup thing that goes with "You're gonna miss me when I'm gone," among other songs.  I really have no idea how to explain it so I posted a video.

Once I learned how to do it I couldn't stop, its unbelievably addicting. There are also other tricks I've learned, like doing rounds, or passing the cup around.  And I've been singing this song all week.

Capture the Fall with "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone"

Anyways I think this one is much better.  Admittedly I may have been editing this one around the song, rather than just editing it and then putting in the song, but that's how it should be done.  If you watch this one first, I think the second one will be very disappointing.  The thing is I don't really mind using websites like free soundarchives.org or musopen.org, but once I watched it with this song, it just fit, I just wouldn't see using anything else.      



{Real Capture the Fall with all Creative Commons}

5X5

1. Crossing the street
2. Sparkly shoes
3. Soccer
4. The swing
5. Down the slide

I used an olympus SP-600UZ, I have no idea what that really means, but I'd consider it an advanced amateur camera.  Since I already knew how to use iMovie and how to upload to Youtube, this was an easy project.
At first I thought this was a weird project, because it doesn't tell a story or really have a point to it at all, but actually like how it turned out, it has a nice flow to it.
For our next independent project I thought we could do something about lighting and lean how to film without just using auto settings.  Sort-of a get to know your camera thing.