Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Vancouver Trip


What's going on with my Project?

I am currently on the editing phase for this class's final project.

Last week I planned a trip to Vancouver with 3 people, two of which I had never met before but offered to help me with the skate poetry video project voluntarily.

So far I am very happy with what I have, but I am considering doing one more trip on wednesday for a couple shots that I wish I had gotten but instead of Vancouver I will be going to Victoria seeing as I can save on the ferry expenses and variety is always great as long as I can connect it during my editing process.

I also arranged with the local Art gallery/tattoo shop Electric Umbrella and the owner of Lurk, Russ Morland, to have a showing of this short video in december.

We decided to do a double feature premiere. Someone else is having a skate video premiere and mine will be a video about skateboarding, so they will be different although relating very well which we both established it was an interesting idea.

So now I'm basically pulling my hair off trying to get all my finals completed in appropriate time.

PS:
This served as one of the BEST learning experiences because I manage to meet and work with 2 volunteers who I have never worked or even talked to before, and we still had a very progressive and effective result. The reason why I think it was a great learning experience is because I look forward to working more often with more volunteers and now that I broke off the comfort zone of always trying to work by myself I think I can achieve greater results.





Monday, 11 November 2013

ahhh no timeee, omg.... Update of everything.


The past weeks have been really intense and full of work. To start my close friend passed away and he had no family here and I had to organize meetings between his family and other relations that he had in Canada, so I traveled to Victoria to support his past host family and didn't find anytime to even think about school or projects.

This week I went to Vancouver to film for the final project, and I got some great shots of the big city that will be represented as described in the poem. This project takes me away from other life things that been happening, so I just wanted to mention, its an amazing experience and I see myself doing more similar works.

And today I finally saw the class was registered and felt a huge relief beat hitting my soul, so I'm very happy that everything went through! :)

Now I plan on keep filming and try to get the right shots. (REALLY HARD, I had a filmmaker that lived with me and was going to help with a lot of the scenes but then he moved to Japan, and theres is no one else that can film skateboarding like him around, but I might ask Brent to help a brother out because he has a good understanding for these things.)