Video talk

So it turns out I can't do a weekly write up about an anime. Because, well, I don't like the zombie genre. Though I've been watching another anime called Shiki, which has to do with vampires. And yet I'm very interested in it. I guess it jut has a different take on the vampire story other then the most generic stories for a vampire.

ANYWAYS

For one of the classes I had, I got an assignment called a "Six Shot Bio" which was basically a Biography of someone (not you) and you had to shoot it in Six different shots. We got examples of a person showing the viewers how to do something (baking, sleeping etc.) and most of them followed that pattern. But see, I know people that do funny things. And not just witty humour but out right ridiculous things. And well, The Can of Nothing is a prime example of that.

So I got Phil to dress up as Batman and we did a biography about him. It got positive feedback but suffered with the marks. The exposure was wrong, and I had jump cuts, which were apparently not allowed.

The original plan was to hand over my edited version to Phil and he'd put it up on the site. But things went down and I never got that tape back. Instead, we decided to re-do it using his camera. And this is the end result:



It was a pretty fun little project that originally took a very long time to do. We didn't have anything planned out, so most things were done on the fly. I pretty much arrived at Phil's place at 11am and finished at 8pm or so.

The hardest part was coming up with a sort of "story" to go along with the shots. We didn't have a script and Phil isn't really good with improving it. So I basically just told him "I'll press the record button, you talk, and we'll form something" and you can see how it turned out. That itself took probably 4 hours.

I was restricted to a minute in length and we wanted to keep it as shot by shot as possible so this one also lasted a minute. Though we added A LOT more jump cuts, which are a no no, but whatever, it's more funny this way.

Re-doing it was a blast, that lasted 4 hours in total (Filming, editing and capturing). And since it was basically shot by shot the same thing, it went pretty smoothly, since I knew what was good and what wasn't almost immediately.

I kind of get the feeling that it slowed down as it went along, a lot of things were quick and near the end you can tell we're kinda stalling for time. At least with the audio anyways.

How close is it to the original? Pretty close. Is it better? I'd say so since I got master editor Phil to help me out. Will there be more? Maybe, we got talking but its still all talk.

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