Well, this month was weird.
I originally planned on making a music video to Bastille's song Pompeii, but those plans fell through and I didn't want to risk saving the project for Thanksgiving break because that's cutting the time extremely close. Instead, I put on my Martha Stewart baking cap made a simple baking video - one that's appropriate for the holidays coming up. I made chocolate mint layer bars, and the video turned out okay at best. Some of the shots were shaky, and I attempted stabilizing them in FCP, but I couldn't completely figure it out. Some of the shots were also a little dark, which I could've corrected more.
Then, yesterday, a DAY BEFORE DEADLINE, I had a crazy idea when driving to school. I was looking around while waiting for a stoplight to turn green and the two people beside me were both texting. Texting and driving is bad! I thought I should do a texting and driving PSA, so I checked out a camera (a few shots were deleted from my baking video so I had to fix them anyways) and did my little thing and filmed a PSA about texting and driving. In it, a girl is running late and her mom yells "Be safe honey!" Ding. Foreshadowing. She runs to the car frantically and begins driving and texts her friend that she is running late. (Don't worry, I didn't actually text and drive while filming this.) I enjoyed filming that... it was a little difficult because I was the filmmaker, the actress, and the editor at the same time. I made it work though.
I originally planned on making a music video to Bastille's song Pompeii, but those plans fell through and I didn't want to risk saving the project for Thanksgiving break because that's cutting the time extremely close. Instead, I put on my Martha Stewart baking cap made a simple baking video - one that's appropriate for the holidays coming up. I made chocolate mint layer bars, and the video turned out okay at best. Some of the shots were shaky, and I attempted stabilizing them in FCP, but I couldn't completely figure it out. Some of the shots were also a little dark, which I could've corrected more.
Then, yesterday, a DAY BEFORE DEADLINE, I had a crazy idea when driving to school. I was looking around while waiting for a stoplight to turn green and the two people beside me were both texting. Texting and driving is bad! I thought I should do a texting and driving PSA, so I checked out a camera (a few shots were deleted from my baking video so I had to fix them anyways) and did my little thing and filmed a PSA about texting and driving. In it, a girl is running late and her mom yells "Be safe honey!" Ding. Foreshadowing. She runs to the car frantically and begins driving and texts her friend that she is running late. (Don't worry, I didn't actually text and drive while filming this.) I enjoyed filming that... it was a little difficult because I was the filmmaker, the actress, and the editor at the same time. I made it work though.
So yeah, a weird month. 2014 is near, and that means a clean slate, right? No more "weird months" or