I shot this video on my Sony a6500 with the 16mm f/1.4 lens from Sigma. I used a gimbal for stabilization and moving around my subjects. I mostly shot 1080p and 4K for the slow worship songs at 24fps and I shot 60fps for the upbeat songs and used time remapping in Premiere Pro to slow it down to 40% and use the speed ramp to transition quickly and more efficiently.
The Titles were also Premiere Pro and for the last scene, I used After Effects to animate the writing on of the words “Carry The Love” on it.
Overall, I like the cuts and transitions used to make the scenes flow better, The challenge with this video was finding music that works with the overall theme of the video.
For my Audio Project, I chose the chapel service when Pastor Rob Ketterling spoke on the Holy Spirit and it was very inspiring to hear his message. While doing this project, I had to find time to record my commentary and I struggled through the recording as my words became to dry because I couldn’t speak too well. I added an eq and a reverb to give my vocals space and frequency and I also added stock music as my intro and outro for this project.
When working on this assignment. trying to find time and the right room was hard. But I was able to capture sound from my zoom H1 recorder and was able to turn it into something great.
It all started back in 2017 and I knew making videos was my hobby. Through my journey of creating videos, I needed a logo brand to represent me, so I came up with Futsum Visuals.
This First logo was designed in Adobe Illustrator and I used the font Gotham and modified it a little bit. I was going for that futuristic look and I liked it for a time being before I knew I needed a different logo.
This Second logo uses the font Andantino script Regular and Aquatico. I was going for a more elegant cursive text and I wanted the word Visuals to have a sans-serif spacey look. It was a cool logo back in 2018 and I needed to continue changing up the design because the gray background didn’t satisfy or meet my needs.
This Third logo uses the font BlackSword and Futura Std Book. I wanted a brushy calligraphic stroke text and BlackSword fit the description. Color played a big role in defining my design and I chose this blue color after demoing different colors. This is my current logo on My Facebook page and when you go on my Facebook page, you’ll be greeted by a handwritten animated loop of this logo. This design will remain for a time being before I re-brand my new logo.
This Last logo uses the font a modified Ecosmith Script and ITC Avant Garde Gothic Pro. I needed a free caligraphy font for commercial use and I ran into Ecosmith. It has the style I needed and I was able to modify by stretching some of these paths in Illustrator. Color was also tricky to find for my re-brand and I found this shade of green to work well. It’s currently being tested and being reviewed right now, and I will have this logo ready to go around mid 2019.
The challenge with designing and re-branding was finding the font, color and the theme for the logo to correspond well and to eventually translate the ideology of what a video logo is supposed to look like and what feelings it can impact.
This Branding Project has samples of business card ideas and apparel branding.
When I found this photo, it was originally black and white. The process of colorizing this black and white photo took a lot of experimentation. The challenge with this photo was how can I get it to be very realistic with different shadings and the environment this girl was in and the hair strands were indeed challenging enough. As far this project went, I enjoyed my time creating and colorizing this photo from scratch.
This photoshoot was from last summer my dad did. He shot it using the Nikon D850 and it was a Raw photo that I color corrected in Photoshop. It was primarily shot on a plain white backdrop and I masked my self out last summer and added the background and vignette from a very cool tutorial that I watched on YouTube. The hardest of this assignment was trying to understand the direction this assignment was going, otherwise it wasn’t too hard.
I knew how pixels defined images depending on if there was enough to fill the frame. then I realized how these images were being translated without losing quality and being sharp to view. My question is what’s a difference between a bitmapped image and a vector graphic and how can you tell them apart?
My First digital device that I owned portably was not a Gameboy nor a Nintendo DS. I was in my puberty stage and I knew I needed a phone for emergency, so my dad gave him his flip phone that has a qwerty keyboard.
At first, I thought, “this is so old” and then I gave it at least a year to use it. I felt like an outsider when it came to digital devices and it literally made me want to get a phone with touch screen. And for this phone in particular, I was mostly able to call not text because my parents couldn’t afford the texting service.
To be honest I can’t remember what I did on my phone except call or maybe play games or even play around with the ringtones. By far, the ringtones were my favorite feature on this phone, and it was pretty interesting to listen to different tones and see what it sounded like. I had this phone during my middle school year, and it was ok. Being basic is what the features were designed for otherwise it was a terrible phone that lasted long.
After a while, I began to hate it and it literally made me want to punch a hole in a wall. What can I say? I’m just a young teenage boy with a phone that sucks and that made me feel like a kid in 2009. And honestly, I thought this was it, that I thought that I was going to be stuck with flip-phones and qwerty phones for the rest of my life and that I wasn’t going to get a smartphone nor an iPhone. it turned out, I was wrong.
After using it for a while, my phone finally broke and I was super happy it was done for and I knew I needed another phone, so I got a basic Nokia phone. My reaction, “why is this happening to me?” and that broke, then more transitions to Android phones, from a basic android phone to Samsung Galaxy SII to Alcatel phone then to Samsung Avant then to a Samsung Galaxy J7 (2016 Edition) then finally an iPhone 8 Plus. My experiences from a basic phone to a well-advanced touch screen phone was dramatically a successful journey.
When I started with this project, I thought I was going to miss making some basic functions on my website. I believed it was going to be a simplistic and very aesthetically pleasing site. And the sources for my videos include Facebook and Vimeo.
The Hardest parts of my projects were trying to find good quality content of videos that I have shot and edited, and It was also trying to come up with a good bio for my site if they want to learn more about me.
Comm 185: Introduction to Digital Media Production 