Video Week 11

This week we have agreed on the final idea of the commercial, and started shooting it.

Here is the idea: A serious grown-up man in suit comes home shirks his work in order to take pleasure of his chocolate. His wife catches him and sends back to work, but after, steals his chocolate in order to enjoy it herself.

Valeria and her friend were chosen as actors, me and Alex as directors and camera operators.  

During the shooting we have changed our script a little bit, because in practice some shots became not so good as they were in theory.

There were two major mistakes in the process of shooting. First - lightening. Second - Zoom-ins and outs. Without professional lightening, our video was to dark and grainy, and with zooms, we were just wasting the time, because commercial became to long and also as far as it is very hard to make a plain and accurate zoom-in, our video became a little bit untidy.

So, we decided to re-shoot our video, taking in consideration our old mistakes.

Video Week 10

This week we were watching a film named Koyaanisqatsi. Koyaanisqatsi can be translated as crazy life, life in turmoil, life out of balance, life disintegrating, a state of life that calls for another way of living. Film depicting the world consisting of nature, humans and technology. 
The movie itself is a bit depressing; it shows our world spoiled and hopeless. After the class I've found one quote by Godfrey Reggio, director of the film: "So it's not the effect of technology, it's that everything exists within it. It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe..."I hope something will change one day...

Video Week 9

During this week on Video production we were showing the final version of our videos.

I think it was a great job, and also a great experience for me. 

Also we started thinking about our next task - 30 seconds commercial for a chocolate. We should create our own brand name and slogan. What is important that in commercial every shot should be perfect. No camera shaking, or slipshod zoom-in and zoom-out. 

Our team (me, Lera, Alex) had some funny ideas, such as grown-ups who eat chocolate like children and muck themselves in it, or girls who want to be slim, but still eat chocolate.

I think we need some more ideas before choosing the one and only!

Video Week 8

Finally I finished editing my video!

Firstly I thought that it will be a very serious and sad video, but then together with the teacher we decided to make it more funny, because Alex standing behind such a thin tree, and Lera speaking with the closed mouth definitely is funny. We come up with the idea of the old silent movie.

It was really hard for me to find the music from old movies, but finally I succeeded!

It looks really good! The old movie style fits my video a lot!