Miriam Elbertai

violet-hippocampus          This music video start off with four different shots. each of them have their own color theme, and an item. Yellow was a football helmet, pink was a cardboard heart, green was a pinata, and blue was an ice cream Sunday. each of those four colored shots also repeat throughout the video with the members of the band, all four of them also having their own color, and wearing an outfit with that color. as the video progresses it switches between the band members playing o singing, and these four items getting beat up. this music video had o specific story line to it, it simply has just things getting destroyed mixed with Jake Lupen singing, and his band either playing the guitar or drum set. they did a great job in lighting and cinematographic shots. the editing was right on beat and was a pretty simple yet interesting video to watch. One element from this music video that i would like to do in my own is how thy edited it together, i...

Projects this semester       We did three projects this semester. I came to this class late because I was previously in convergence journalism. I came to this class while we were doing the six shot system, this was video assignment one , and I just hopped into a group. we did ours over silly putty. I helped with lights and I acted. this project took around two weeks. some challenges we faced is that we used a blanket for the background and it wouldn't stay up, but eventually we got it.      We did a Levis commercia l. our idea was we based it off of a scene from Spiderman three. for this I was casting director and I acted in it. I feel like we did a really good job on it. our cinematographer and colorist did a really good job on making it look good. we were organized and got our project done on time.   My current project is the short film.  this project is longer because we all had to write treatments, and then tho chosen o...

My favorite project this year was the advertising project. We chose a band or artist and we made a poster about them, tickets, and post cards. This project took me around a month to do. Some challenges I faced was not being good at using the curve tool, and the picture I used for the poster was blurry. A new skill I learned was I now can use the curve tool semi well, and I learned how to use  InDesign better. Some of the feedback I got was that the colors I used looked kind of childish so I changed them too look better. With my original idea it was super chaotic and I changed it to be less like that. I feel like overall it could have been better but it wasn't bad. Another one of my favorite projects was the vector project. we chose a picture of a family member, pet, or your self. I chose a picture of my cat. This project took me a while to do because I had to make a bunch of triangles and then color them in. Some challenges I faced was that I thought while coloring in that wher...

Before we started filming, we had to choose a movie, make a story bored, and more. we chose this one movie, but we didn't end up doing it. I made a story board for it and we got everything done for it. so before we started filming, everything was organized. next, the person filming got actors for the film so he could film over spring break. unfortunately i could not attend because i was out of town Unfortunately, he could not get any actors, but that did not stop us. he filmed random clips around the place where he works, amc, and we made our own movie trailer. we all edited our own video, so mine was a horror story. it just had scary music and eerie shots, so it worked well. when i edited it all together, as unorganized and unplanned this was, it came out okay. (this is what happens when we are not allowed to choose our groups). I did not watch my other groups videos yet, but the one thing good about this is that all three of ours will be unique. We where supposed to recreate ...

Pre-Production At first, we where told to find a high definition photo of yourself, a family member, or a pet. The first thing that popped into my mind was my pet cat. she is fluffy and cute, so I thought that it would be good for this project. when I was little, I had an instagram account for my cat. my dad was teaching me art photography, so I would use his camera and practice taking pictures of her. I used one of my favorite photos. we took that photo and we put it into photoshop. we cropped it to be the correct size, and then we edited it to make it easier to find different colors in the future. I decided to do the triangles because I'm not really good with the pen curve tool, and I wanted this too look as good as possible. Production This was more difficult then I thought. the photo I chose was full of colors cause my cat has many different shades of brown, orange, grey, black, and white. I had...

Our project was to make a music video, but its not as simple as it seems. First thing we did was assign roles, like director, main editor, cinimatographer, ect. After assigning roles, we began getting ready for shooting, but this is a long process. i made a story bored of every shot from the music video, Congradulations, by Post Malone. this took a while cause i sketched every shot, lightly described the shot, and wrote down the lirics for each shot that had any. the people in my group also where doing thing for post production. once we where done with this we started getting ready to shoot. we had to get many actors for our music video to come in during 4th hour. We didnt get all of this done so we got some done during lunch too. unfortunatly, our main actor playing post maolone, had to go back to class during 4th hour, so we only god one shot by himself. for editing, that didnt make it easy. We filmed in the green screen room and the room next to it because it had a big table simil...

preproduction we chose 10 quotes that best represented us. honestly for me, I just chose quotes that I strongly believed in and that where sort and simple. out of those 10, we chose our four favorite ones to use. I chose 1) Wherever life plants you, bloom with grace 2) be a voice, not an echo 3) the trouble is, you think you have time 4) die with memories, not dreams. after choosing these quotes, we went to a website with some pretty unique fonts. I chose fonts that I thought fit with the specific words and quotes. we chose at least two fonts to use for each quote. production during the production I was able to praise using then pen tool, which is kinda difficult for me, and I think I have gotten much better at it from this project. for the project, we had to arrange the type to make it look pleasing. I made most of mine in the middle, besides on that was more on the right to left. personally, I like working in color more then I like working in black and white cause it makes more...