Remember when I said I would be using my site for assignments? Well… Here is my first one. It was to digitally edit these photos by instruction. I am going to post these Backwards… after and then Before
Here are the photos before I edited them
Hello! Welcome to ( or back to) my blog. There will be a lot going on with this blog throughout the months so please buckle your seatbelt and ride with me as I go through this journey.
In 2010, when I attended video school I took a wide range of classes that introduced me to software like Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, and Final Cut Pro. As I complete my next degree I will reintroduce myself to these programs as well as create with the digital animations program Maya, and will also make up my own projects during my free time. I’m simply doing this to sharpen my skills so your comments and advice are always welcome.
I will be using my website as my focus in one of my classes I am taking towards my communications degree so there will be a variety of videos, projects and assignments posted on this blog, and most of them will be about myself. I chose to focus on myself for this project because I’d like to continue to mold and shape myself as a technical professional as well as on my blog which represents my internet presence and what I enjoy doing for a living.
I hope to be able to put together a few different videos and work all of the aspects of broadcasting communications that I can while in school. I go to a great school that has a lot of options and opportunities available before and after graduation so I hope I can still network like I did when I ran 206 Wetness!
For those of you who don’t know what 206Wetness is, it’s a site I created a few years ago that featured a lot of the seattle area entertainers and events when they came into town. I enjoyed doing it but It was a lot of work. So Much that I couldn’t handle it all on my own. My biggest issue I had with this was that I knew how to work both sides of the camera but I couldn’t work both sides of the camera plus network and run the entire website. It came to a point where I had to choose between focus on school or focus on my website, and I chose school.
Getting Back to Work.
I took a long break from the entertainment world to figure out why I really wanted to focus on and long story short… I’m Back 🙂
Seattle… Hip Hop High Heels Class Coming Soon
Be on the look out 🙂
Lately I have been Couponing like crazy. I’ve been trying to find a way to incorporate my ability to save in with the work that I would like to do in the future.. Video work. Any Video professional knows how expensive it is to buy professional equipment…. It sucks. ( and to think at one point in time I was saving up to buy one of these..)
I got on google and started to search around for ways to create my own Video equipment. It may not be as durable as real equipment but it works for what you need it for. Shown below is a video I found on youtube explaining how to create a stabilizer formatted differently buy it essentially does the same thing. Using PVC Pipes you can create this for about 5.00!
I went and purchased the materials for this and only ended up spending about 4.75 on all of the equipment. I also found a coupon for a mini light that I will redeem at the Hardware store. I’ll use this as my video light.
I will post my final product when it is finished!
This is Dice, a Local Seattle Rap & R&B Artist.
I Love this Song. This was a Video shot on my flip cam.. She was the show closer and by the time she performed my battery was dead.
Buy an additional Camera Battery.. Lesson learned.
This was one of the hardest project we had to for the editing class because not only was it 3 different scenes, we had the crappiest of crap footage to deal with. My teacher told us “a great editor is one who can make shitty footage look like magic”. So I played with the cards I was dealt and this was the end product. We were also to look for background music to go with the project. I chose paralyzer mainly because I didn’t want 2 R&B songs and I felt like it fit the beginning scene. After I chose “Can’t believe”. I think the sadness of the beat matches well with the mood of the scene.
Im Seattle's Randi 