Video Art
Welcome to everything video and video editing. My last semester in college I took an experimental video art class that focused on teaching us how to use applications such as Premiere Pro and After Effects. Through this class I was able to dip my toes into video editing and know a thing or two about film production.
Final Project
These two videos were entirely different concepts that I smashed together into one video project. In an attempt to convey calm vs. chaos I had friends of mine act out their nighttime routines and others run through the woods.
For this project one of the key components was that we were teamed up with a music class that had to prepare sound for our videos. This collaboration prompted me to want to do something different with my videos, so I used color filters over my lens to further convey my ideas of undisturbed stillness vs. disorder.
The End Product
Here is the final version of everything put together. The idea was that the videos would be shown on three separate screens in an empty, dark room, which is the reason for this type of layout. My partner and I timed out the music as well as the different clips so that contrast between the videos and the audio would synch up. Enjoy!
Project 2
For this project the requirement was to use some sort of animation in your video and/or make use of the masking feature in Premiere Pro. I wanted to do something focused on psychedelics because for this project we all got assigned one of the audio pieces that was made by a music student. The audio I got assigned was very reverb focused and that gave it a dream like sound, so I focused on that aspect of the audio and using some found footage used the masking feature to make it seem like reality was warped. There’s a video of me setting up the “green screen” I used for this project.
Project 1
This project was my very first time working with video and video editing tools. The main objective for this project was to pick a piece of text we liked and make a video based on that text. I picked Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson.
Because I could not stop for death,
he kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
and immortality.
With this text I wanted my audience to feel the stillness of death. I took inspiration from Bill Viola’s The Messenger as well as Breaking Bad’s season 4, episode 11 Where is the Money?, scene.