Let There Be Light!

March is turning out to be a great month for me! I have two amazing projects coming up and an exciting holiday to look forward to!

One of these projects is my entry into this weekend’s “Weekend Project” on Vimeo.com. The project is to take footage with ordinary sounds (crashes, bangs, electronics, appliances) and edit them together to create something uniquely musical. I’m going to take that a step further, by writing my own pice of instrumental rock music (Yes, a real piece of music, not more of this abstract, experimental crazyness :P) and syncing that up with some rather... unique visuals.

My second project is related to this holiday I mentioned. Over the March break, I’m going on a 12 day trip to magnificent Spain! This is a school trip, with a very lucky group of 30 students attending. Of course, I’ll be bringing my trusty XH-A1 and a heap of tapes with me, taking as much footage as humanly possible. Upon my return, I will compose individual videos for each major city we visited, allowing you to experience an intimate look at the wonders of Spain from your own home. Get excited! I know I am! :D

UPDATE:
WOW! I won the contest with Light Guitar Rock! After only 12 days I’ve gotten over 14,000 views and a lot of positive feedback. I had so much fun with this project, I’m bound to do it again and I’m certainly going to write more of my own rock music. See the video at www.vimeo.com/3595353

School, School, and More School!

As generic as it sounds, school has been keeping me busy. Work, projects, tests, more work, more projects. I’m running out of “me” time. :( Classes have been keeping my busy with course-specific film projects, inluding a 9 minute documentary on the psylogical differences between teenagers and adults (I may upload this in the future), and a 2 HOUR recording of one of my school’s theater productions, The Princess Bride.

Some good has come out of this, though: Another experimental film project! One of my classes, “Non Traditional Art”, is an arts course that has a focus on art forms that are, well, not traditional. We’re currently in the experimental video unit, and amongst the projects I’ve completed for the unit are the rhythmically satisfying “Foot Jingle”, and the newly uploaded “Sand Coaster”. I’m sure the artistically inclined among you find them... interesting. ;)

For those of you who can’t stand the image-intensive, plot-lacking, artsy-fartsy videos like these, don’t worry, there are some more “normal” short films on the way. I assure you that they will entertain you and tickle your funny bones! :D