I decided to do the second option of doing three from the assignment bank becuase I didn’t really understand the first option very well. I did find so many fun assignments in the bank and I wanted to do two that were about my character so I can build more about them. I did three assignments, Tell Your Character’s Story, Character Movie Trailer, and #SixSecondArt.
My character is Layla and if you don’t know about her, she is a Manga Artist, who loves marvel, coffee shops, book lover, and she believes Everything can be interpreted as art.
I also wanted to do #SixSecondArt because it reminds me of doing a vine and that was my childhood. I never made any vines and I now thinking about trying to capture everything in 6 seconds is really hard.
I hope everyone enjoyed my video bank assignments! I worked on them all day Monday and Tuesday so I wanted to go back and write about them with a fresh and clear mind. I think it was really fun to base it off of my character! I also wanted to add my cats because cats make everything better! Overall, I love video editing and everything that comes with it.
Today I did a little combination of two Video Assignments: this one revolving around making an animatic and this one revolving around making a video list of 5 things important to you. Combining them, I chose to make a little animatic about things that are most important to my Course Character, Sol!
Actually, I was planning on making an animatic of the original assignment (conversing with Dr. Oblivion), but I was annoying having to keep drawing over and over. Instead, I used the frames I got from that and put them into this!
Here is the video:
I used FireAlpaca, an art program I’ve been using since like 2015 and a really old Wacom art tablet from when I used to actually draw a lot. Since then, I lost interest in art (I watched all my artist peers get better at art and watched how I could not always improve and it made me mad so I just stopped (and I got old and busy)), but this was nice to rebirth the artsy side of me.
I used ElevenLabs for the AI voice for Sol (it’s the voice Serena), but I don’t think the voice is exactly what I would imagine them to sound like. Having a fluid form makes me think that their voice would just be different all the time.
I used OpenShot to edit this and finally figured out how to work it, and it is actually . . . so easy to use, it’s kind of crazy. Not sure what happened last week, but we got it! Putting all the pictures in and moving them around was not hard at all, very simple task and not even the hardest part. Very crazy to me that I’m saying that the easiest and quickest part was editing it!
This was an okay assignment, though. I spent too much time on it, but I rebirthed the old art-lover inside of me, so it was sort of nostalgic too.
I don’t know about y’all, but when I was a kid, one of my favorite shows to throw on the tv was Tom & Jerry. In every episode, there was always a funny conflict to watch between the two, allowing me to laugh until I couldn’t laugh anymore. I used iMovie to upload the clip of Tom & Jerry and then added some sound effects and editing to produce a quality sound-over to cover every aspect of the scene that was going on. I hope everyone enjoys this short clip!
Meet my lovely dog, Max, a well-trained lab mix who loves long walks and to play. iMovie allowed me to upload a video I had saved from TikTok with the challenge presented in the opening scene of the video. I then added the song Stereo Hearts in the background to enhance the joyfulness of any pet that comes to the viewer’s mind. Hope y’all laugh your hearts out!!
“Record yourself getting ready! Whether it be how you get ready for your day, ready for bed, ready for an event, makeup look, etc. See if you can edit the video to speed through parts that may take a second (i.e. washing your face, brushing your teeth…) and create a voice over of the process. For inspiration, look up any ‘Get ready with me’ video on YouTube! Have fun with it, maybe even make a (tasteful) parody version.”
So I decided, of course I’m going to do makeup!
I actually did three different looks and filmed it yesterday . . . and then accidentally deleted it when it didn’t save right . . . and lost everything so I got really mad . . . so this is actually my second time doing this video assignment!
Anyways, here is my video!
The video is messy, I cut out the majority of it because I ended up covering up what I was doing with my hand, BUT! I did it! I kept everything sped up too because it can be miserably slow . . . makeup is a tedious process, let me tell you.
Also, editing this was nightmareish. I have no idea how makeup social media influencers decide what they want in the video and especially those who make TikToks or Instagrams that are just 1 minute . . . I skipped so many stuff!! How do they do it and include everything!! Even if you cut out the entire process of a step, it feels weird . . . huge kudos to them for that though (in another life I am a social media makeup influencer but in this life I am not).
If you want a list of all of my makeup that I used in this (whether included or not), here it is:
Elf Blemish Control Face Primer w/ salicylic acid
Colourpop Pretty Fresh pressed face powder (shade fair 1)
Morphe x Nyane Fierce Fairytale Palette (Eyeshadow Colors: Gyoza)
Morphe x Abby Roberts Bittersweet Like Honey Palette (Eyeshadow Colors: Solar, Spicy, Vivienne, LA Vibez; Blush Colors: Hot Sauce, Pink Champagne)
Juvia’s Place The Nubian Glow Palette (Eyeshadow Colors: Gold shade mid bottom, has no name?!?!)
Elf Dewy Coconut Setting Mist
Isn’t that fun..
Anyways, I filmed this on my phone (iPhone 15 Pro) and edited it on iMovie because it took too long to try to send to my laptop to edit through OpenShot. I didn’t have any trouble with iMovie, though. It was a fairly easy application to use.
I’m not sure what else to say that I haven’t said here or in the video. I think it’d be interesting to see other Sol-inspired makeup (maybe I am just a lover of sun-related aesthetics and need to take a breather but this makes me so excited) so maybe I will continue to do more Sol makeup! Very obviously, this makeup would look very different on them, because I am about as pale as my hoodie in the video, but I’m actually working on drawing Sol a little bit (my other assignment that I’m doing is the animatic one . . . which is taking a while, but surprise for more Sol features soon!)
Thank you for reading and watching I hope you have a good day or night!
The Walk of Life Project states that the Dire Straits’ song “Walk of Life” can represent the perfect ending scene of any movie. In this case, I chose the movie “Moneyball,” directed by Bennett Miller. I think that the ending scene of this movie correlates perfectly with the song “Walk of Life.” I uploaded both clips (the ending movie scene and song) to iMovie. I was then able to edit the clips so that they matched in the way I saw fit to produce the best outcome. Hope y’all enjoy it!
Behind the creation: For this, I decided to go a different route than simply filming my food, because it would be inaccurateto Marie. I began by thinking about what she would eat. For breakfast, she would only have a coffee because most of her morning would be devoted to the kids and getting them out the door as heard in the previous audio assignment. Lunch would be something quick, so I thought of pizza. Lastly, I thought about dinner and found that spaghetti came to mind. Next, I went to find free videos online, but they didn’t have audio, so I went to free audio and. gathered audio to add. I then gathered the videos in a breakfast, lunch, and dinner orientation and added the sounds to match. This was fairly easy and I posted it to YouTube Shorts! I hope that you enjoy it.
Behind the Creation: I wanted to take a peak into Marie’s head and figure out something I could make into a short video that represents her life. I had previously mentioned that she is a mom and the first thing that came to my mind when I heard mom was packing a kid’s lunch. For this, Iheaded to CANVA (free) and used their text-to-video beta to create this AI-generated video since she is an AI. The text-to-video generator took many trials even to get something remotely what I was looking for but in the end, I settled on this one. I hope you enjoy my take on this assignment.
Today I watched the good classic 2001: A Space Odyssey to study Stanley Kubrick’s directing and cinematography. It was a long movie, and I had to separate it into two different watchings because I had to go to work in the middle of it.
This movie . . . wow, it was onto something. I really enjoyed it!! I also think it’s so interesting to see how this was one of the first AI characters in media, and I really thought about how AI has changed so much in film. It also had the trope that AI learns too much and becomes evil, so that was interesting how that idea was present even in the 60s.
For the Assignment, I did a video essay on one of the scenes in which HAL-9000, the AI in the film, was observing and listening (or reading) the two humans, Dave and Frank, discuss that maybe HAL was malfunctioning. It’s the turning point, and it’s a tense scene that has barely any movement.
Some notes about my video essay: I used OBS to record the movie and Microsoft Clipchamp to film the audio voiceover and edit. And it was hell. I couldn’t zoom in on the audio and I felt very far away and with limited control. At one point, I tried to drag the audio, and it completely disappeared . . . and I couldn’t get it back despite still hearing it . . . so please ignore the little error where my voice repeats itself! I literally could not see the audio.
Overall thoughts were, the movie was great, the filming and storytelling through tiny tiny things was so powerful. The voiceover was also like fighting a war, I filmed 3 different takes before deciding I just needed to make a script and hope for the best. Editing made me want to slam my head into a wall (also I tried OpenShot first, and couldn’t import my video at all so I gave up), despite having a little experience in editing. I definitely, definitely need more practice.
I chose a scene from the movie Ex Machina to analyze. I downloaded it from YouTube, by upgrading to premium temporarily. It took me a great deal of time to get it into Premiere Pro. The tutorials on the assignment bank page have expired, but once it became apparent to me that I needed to convert the download that was stored in my account on YouTube (and not in the downloads in my computer), then I converted it to a mp4 and downloaded it. In Premiere Pro, I imported the file and lowered the audio gain to -10. Then on a separate layer, I did my voice over narration. I really focused on the cinematography and lighting. If I do another one, I will discuss more of what is happening in the story and between the characters. After the first recording of my voice, I noticed that my comments were not in sync with the action in the shots. I did some cutting to see if I could get a smooth track, but I ended up re-recording my voice over and that was the better option.
I hope you have a good day or night!