My situation’s been interesting for awhile. Interesting in that it was not necessarily the most conducive for updating this blog.
Sure, I could find time to talk about politics, since that’s a major passion and knocking out some long-winded diatribe about Obama, Republicans or Tax Breaks takes no more than 5 or 10 minutes. But when it comes to adding the work I do…that I’ve been bad about. That’ll change soon.
My situation’s changed, and though enough people know about it, I’m not one who likes to talk about things because I fear the dreaded JINX. For some reason, and this is probably one of the few things I’d say I’m superstitious about, I’ve always disliked talking about the prospect of good fortune.
Until that good fortune is in my hand, talking about it seems more like thumbing your nose in the face of God/The Universe/The Spaghetti Monster/Fate. Things have a way of falling through, even at the last minute, even when everything is seemingly set in stone. Counting your chickens before they’ve hatched, as it were, comes across as hubris. Or at least it has in my experience, and accordingly, the offender (me) is punished.
So once things get going, like officially, like there’s a check in my hand and I know it’s happening, then I’ll start blogging about the experience. In fact, there will be a lot of graphic design/motion design/art design that I’ll be doing which would and should be posted here.
On another, smaller note – I’ve added a “Follow Me!” on Twitter graphic to the page. I think he’s a cutie :p
So, there’s this contest, you see, where people create ‘commercials’ on the subject of ‘What Would You Do For a Klondike Bar?’
My group and I did a couple of commercials, and one of them I’m wanting to share here, and hopefully, garner some more votes. So let’s get that out of the way first:
What did I do on this video? Well, I wrote, directed, shot, edited, color graded, sound designed and did the motion graphics work. Oh, I also sculpted/built the big, huge, stinkin Klondike bar, with the help of Lesley Sullivan and Angela Maldonado.
John Gholson does the amazing voice for the Klondike, and he initially had the concept of a ‘giant klondike bar.’ Jennifer Blair plays the lovely lady who is doing all the deeds, and Paul Gandersman plays the dumped fiance.
Lesley Sullivan and Peter Yoder produced this, which means they busted their ass making sure everything went well. Lesley made the ’skirt’ for the klondike, which looks so much like foil it blows my mind.
Angela oversaw the ADR session, giving me the CLEANEST audio I’ve ever gotten. It was amazing.
Alright. Go watch the video. And vote! OH, and if you want to see a higher quality version, just ask me. I’ve got one, I’m just keeping it on the downlow until the voting period is over
I’ve given myself one year, more or less, to put my senior thesis film, Sons of Gods into various film festivals around the nation. But up until this point, I haven’t been
very pro-active about the whole thing.
Diag 1: Sons of Gods: Prologue
Sons of Gods is a weird film. Maybe it’s great. Maybe it’s not. That’s in the eye of the viewer, and frankly, I’ve heard it both ways. Personally, like most film makers, I only see the flaws and the things that should have been changed. That said, I stand by 100% the camera movements and editing choices we made, and love how my Director of Photography, Chris Todd, and I were able to get angle after angle, allowing me to make something that at least looks extremely cinematic.
Plus, the visual effects are pretty damn stunning. Tons of sky has been replaced with bluer hues, since most of the atmosphere was blown out while on set. 3 guys walking over a little plot of land 10 times suddenly becomes an army of 100 with space ships in the background, and a $9 pair of plastic National Geographic binoculars seem to work like something out of Star Wars.