Video Race Evaluation

The video race turned out to be a very fun, challenging project. Not only was it fun creating the film in such a short amount of time, the screening event at Jengo's was also very rewarding. It really surprised me how unique each person's project was.

I attempted to compose a visually interesting project. I decided to use my camera phone to capture my footage. The basis of my images were interesting  textures that you may come across in your everyday routine. My favorite image that I captured was the image of my cookie cutter on a hot stovetop burner with steam rising up from it.  Another image I liked was of the camera moving through the leaves of a group of trees that were lit by a nearby street light. 

I combined these textured images with images that I had on my camera phone of a previous night in a bar, and images of tinfoil that I manipulated in different ways. The images that I took in the bar were images of Trip, Kyle, and Russ, all members of our class, that I thought might bring a few laughs into my project. I also captured some video images of a green light at the bar that was shining on the wall. 

Since I wanted to make my project a compilation of cool images I decided to use layering techniques in final cut pro with images that I altered in photoshop. In photoshop I took the images of the tinfoil and used the magnetic lasso tool to make parts of the images transparent. In final cut I layered images behind and on top of my photoshopped images to created my desired effect. I also tried to keep the rhythm of my project interesting with clips of varied length to keep the film interesting and fresh. At first, I didn't know if I liked the way my project turned out, but it looked pretty nice on the big screen at the Jengo's screening.