Author: jgallaher24

For my final video I plan to make a vlog styled video about my day. I have recorded many vlogs before and thought with all the new information and filming techniques I’ve learned this semester that I would be able to produce a high quality, entertaining video that showcases the skill I’ve gained from the curriculum this course provided.

If I don’t go the vlog route I was looking at possibly doing a cooking documentary or a montage of beginning to end of working on an art project!

For my groups short film we are doing a comedy action short based around a heist. We will have 4 characters; Chase: the driver, Anna: the informant, Lottie: the hacker, and Tony: the mastermind. I want this to be set up very intensely with comedic timing dialogue that keeps the audience laughing but doesn’t provoke disinterest through cheesiness. For our short we will need 2 different shooting areas, a industrial park back alley and a dingy planning basement where majority of the film would take place. The short is about 4 people robbing a silly place like Chuck e cheese or subway. Very climactic and tense buildup to a silly outcome.

I think if we can pull off this idea in a cinematic way it would be very entertaining.

The filming for my interview was not what envisioned at all unfortunately. For this project I decide to record my sister and her new floristry business as she’s been excited about it and I though it would be a fun video. The major setback for this was the lighting available to me where we shot. It was incredibly gloomy outside and her lighting inside the home was extremely dim. She only has overhead lighting and it’s very orange and unflattering for any sort of filming. Im hoping through editing I can bring some light into the clips more but I am unsure of how to do that exactly so we will see once I start compiling everything.

Aside from the lighting the other aspects were okay. The questions were well though out and her answers were genuine and entertaining but she was a little unprepared so the the interview section looks a bit unprofessional. The only part I’m content with was my B-roll. I got a lot of shots of her building her bouquet, and of the materials and close ups of her hands doing the work. A possibility I might refilm what I have but we will see.

Visual evidence is a key piece to any sort of documentary styled film or short. I view documentaries and non-fiction shows or videos as almost a visual compilation of just straight evidence to explain a concept, story, or idea. It’s also very important for fictional works but its required for anything non-fiction like The Devils Playground. In the devils playground the concept of amish life is explained din great detail and focuses heavy on the life of the teenage amish and how the complete loss of religious structure will send young amish teens spiraling and possibly bonding amish life as a whole.

This concept is conveyed through a mass amount of visual evidence. For the conveying of how amish life works and how limited the amenities of the amish are we see a lot of shots of the clothing, the wagons and horses, the farming, house hold objects, and one thing that really caught my eye, the use of oil lamps. The oil lamps were never commented on but it just adds to simple nature and technologically restrictive life the amish live.

The visual evidence in this documentary was very compelling and effective. Everything shown is such stark contrast to the life we live that it pushed this story much farther than just briefly explaining the amish way of life and then focusing on the fallout of amish teenagers. It’s like it set a strict boundary and example of how the kids should be acting vs how they are actually acting.

For this post I chose one of the AI created videos, I have a very stubborn view on the topic as I despise all AI used in art. I think the root of my distaste for AI in artistic creations is how fraudulent it feels along with this undertone of disrespect for actual human artists who spend their entire lives curating their style and making art while a computer can make “art” in seconds. The whole concept of it just irks me.

Don’t get me wrong, AI is an amazing tool in so many aspects of life like technology, medical advancements, information systems etc. but it’s a tool I strongly believe should be removed from art.

As for the video I chose “POOF” an AI created short film about muppet looking entities working in an office and exploding from what I’m guessing is the stress of the environment.

This video creates a scene in a world where intelligent life like humans are replaced by puppet creatures and they are placed into a mundane and grey environment like an office. The contrast between the puppets and environment is an interesting piece of the video, I like the idea of putting very child-like puppets that are colorful and textured in a fun way in a drab and flat workplace, it works very well together.

As the video continues on we see a multitude of puppets doing regular office work and over time you can see the puppets starting to shake and get overwhelmed to the point of combusting leaving behind just the fur texture in a pile where they were placed. I think it’s fun to view this as how people, who as they grow with life continue to maintain that ‘child-at-heart’ attitude, and as these people enter the workforce the maturity and drabness of a workplace just overloads them to a point of misery.

Edited as group due to technology malfunctions.