Project No. 1 - My World

My primary medium for artistic expression in the past has mostly been drawing, everything from simple ballpoint pen doodles to detailed charcoal portraits. At the end of high school I embarked on a new interest in video and communication through video via Youtube and the Internet. When I began making my own videos, I quickly realized that it was the editing process and post-production that fascinated me more than the actual recording of the film itself. So when I started college I began a series of vlogs intended to a) capture some of my experiences throughout the year and b) allow me to improve my editing skills. At the end of my freshman and sophomore years I created a montage of the footage I shot throughout the school year.

Freshman Year:

Sophomore Year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHgLe9_Vy6E

Now that I have some experience with the process, I’m interested in a more creative style of video making/editing: using video to tell a story or convey a theme rather than document events. These are some of the creators that inspire me to do that.

William Kentridge is a South African artist that combines two of my artistic interests, drawing and film, to a somewhat haunting effect; he draws something, then films the drawing, then changes the drawing, films it again and so on, leaving the erasure marks of the previous drawing visible. 

This is Filmography 2010, one of the videos that pushed me into editing. Gen Ip takes hundreds of clips from films released throughout the year and edits them together to wondrous effect. I’m anxiously awaiting the 2014 version.

This is PJ, a Youtube filmmaker that tends toward the fantastical and the weird. Many of the props in his videos and short films are either things he already owns or things he makes himself.