Category: Film

Chocolat

 

This last spring I started work on a redesigned title sequence for the movie Chocolat. I have found that my lest favorite title sequences are the ones where the film begins and the titles are just slapped on top of the image wherever there is space. This was the style of opening titles in Chocolat. In my opinion, if this is how you want to do your title sequence, you may as well not even have one. That’s not to say that titles have to have their own separate sequence. There are quite a few films that start right into the story and incorporate titles that work really well because of the way they are incorporated within the image.

So with this project, I wanted to experiment with integrating the typography into the sequence. I wanted to make the typography have equal visual weight as the imagery of the film and to make everything appear as seamless as possible. This wasn’t perfect by any means but was, as I mentioned, an experiment. I really learned a lot from both the mistakes and the things that really seemed to work well. And after about an hour or so of shooting, I got really sick of the smell of chocolate. But I have gotten over that now and can enjoy chocolate once again.

Special thanks to everyone that helped me with this project: Dora, Natalia, Joella, Tiera, Jorrien, Jocilyn, and Wendy. There is no way I could have made any of these delicious treats without their help. I can barely make cookies from a mix that just adds water.

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I Am Switzerland

This summer Dora and I had a chance to return to Switzerland where we first met. We spent 4 weeks there and loved every minute of it. It is such a beautiful place that I came away with nearly 6 hours worth of footage and even more photos. I’ll eventually get around to creating an infographic about the trip to give you all the exact numbers. This short film was written and filmed during that time (and edited during the two months that followed). Dominique, the owner of the hotel we stayed at, was kind enough to do the narration for the video. I certainly didn’t write the easiest words for him to say, but he did great.

USU Baseball

Recently I filmed the USU Baseball team and put together these two short films. It was the first time I have tried doing something with this style. I really liked this style and am thinking of other ways to use it. There are a number of things that I will plan to change next time I make something with this high contrast style and slow motion. It was definitely a good learning experience and hopefully round two will be much better.

Snow Day

 

For one of my classes I am taking this semester I had to put together a 2 minute montage video. Normally I really hate cold weather but love seeing beautiful photographs of snowy scenes. So on Saturday morning I woke up early and captured some footage and a few still photographs as well. Then I gathered up some older footage and put together this little video. I’m still trying to warm up from all that cold weather.

La Lasagna

 

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. While this video has nothing to do with Thanksgiving, it is full of food. Lasagna to be exact. For quite some time now, Dora has wanted me to make a cooking video for her. Almost like a video recipe card. So this is not a traditional cooking video that you would see on the food network or something. This is just a quick glimpse of the ingredients and process of making a lasagna with fresh pasta. I hope you enjoy the video, I know I enjoyed the lasagna.

Hawaiian Moments

Just to warn you…this video is not for the faint of heart. If you are prone to seizures, I’d reccomend not watching this one. It’s a video of most of the photos taken during my Hawaii trip (not all 772 are in the video). And yes, they are all still photos. There’s no video clips in this.

Hawaiian Cinemagraph

Dora and Christal Cinemagraph

Recently I discovered a website that I thought was really cool. It’s cinemagraphs.com. The thing I really like about this is that these are not just your typical animated gifs. These instead are great photographs that have subtle movements isolated to only one area which places an emphasis on the subject. So I thought I’d give this a try. This image is not necessarily the best photo, but this was more for me to learn the technical aspects of this. Thanks to Christal and Dora for being my models for this scenic cinemagraph in Hawaii.

A Cars Chrismas

This is a quick film I did with a few of my family members over the Christmas break. We put on our own family film festival and split into four teams and each created its own film. We each only had one week to come up with an idea, film it, and edit. Then we all got together one night and laughed at everyone’s awesome films. They all turned out great and it was fun to do. Thanks to everyone that participated. Here is my team’s short film.