The Sad State of Wizards Basketball The Washington Wizards are bad. And by “bad”, I don’t mean bad in the sense of, “Wow, that was a bad movie.” Because someone, somewhere, enjoyed watching that movie, even if just for a scene or two. No, the Wizards are tragically, deplorably, bad... To read more, follow this link to the Sideline Scoop.
Capture the Fall
For this assignment, I needed to put together a minute long video comprised of at least ten clips, and this video was supposed to exemplify what fall means to me. So, I set out with my friend Peter, and started scoping out for shots. We got the typical leaves and nature shots, but those weren't my favorite shots. The shot of us tossing the pigskin around isn't the most artistic, but does capture a key part of my fall life, and the shot of Peter falling into the leaf pile is just classic. Since I wanted to give the video a lively feel, when I was editing, I threw in an upbeat, energetic piece of music that I found on a CC approved website. I threw a few transitions in, and the result is what you see below. Unfortunately, the video is not quite a masterpiece because I had some slight issues holding the camera steady. Enjoy "A Frandsen Fall".
Multiple Choice plus a hoops mixtape
I'm fairly satisfied with our trailer, "Multiple Choice". It details the concept of a society in which one test decides your place in the community, and if you fail, then you're sent away for a lifetime of labor. A family comprised of two brothers is split up after the elder one fails the test, and in his combination of rage and sadness, the younger brother decides to fail on purpose to break his brother out, and presumably start a rebellion.
I love some of our shots, but more than anything, we stumbled upon them. We were walking to one our group member's houses, when we noticed a pile of dirt with a gray wall behind it. A collective lightbulb flashed above our heads, and we got into costume and shot our labor scene there. Next, we needed a spot for Jesse's rousing speech, and wandered around the house for a while. Eventually, we found a small room with old looking walls, and after putting a camera on it, it looked perfect. Those are my favorite shots in the film, and they came about completely on accident.
There are, unfortunately, some slightly sketchy things about our trailer The video quality is sort of poor, because we used a flip camera, but one could argue that the low quality was in the name of creating a dismal image of the society. And in hindsight, we could have furthered the concept a little more. But I think our music saves it. The song, Prophecy by Mr. Morse, is savage. If I were grading our film, I would bump it a solid five points for the music alone. It was interesting that were able to find such a quality piece of music using vocals that was CC approved. Anyhoo, you will find our trailer below.
P.S. I swear I will get back to writing about sports next week. Unfortunately, nothing very writeable has happened in the sporting world over the past two weeks. In the meantime, enjoy this hoops mixtape.
