Miriam Elbertai

     For my reel, I felt like it represented me as an editor and my style of editing pretty well. I started out by choosing the music that I thought would fit my overall vibe. Next, I found some of my old projects (a couple u could not find due to t last year's seniors taking projects off their YouTube channel after they graduated). After that, I put all the videos together to make a smooth, flowing reel that I thought fit me.      Over the past four years of eComm, I have acquired many shots throughout all of my projects. some good, others not so good. I made sure to incorporate some of the best shots that I have taken (specifically from the junior and senior year). many were from a music video I directed from last year and a commercial I also directed this year. unfortunately, I failed to get some of what I believed were some of the best shots from some of my projects last year as I said previously. however, I still managed to make my reel diverse. I included shots from my music

 For our commercial, we chose RK lipstick for our product. Our concept was to have two actors and two different colors of lip sticks and have it be 80s punk. For pre-production, we first decided what production roles would be best for this project. I was director, Jaden did art direction, Aly was DP, and Shaylee was the editor. After we established production roles, we made storyboards and a script.  Shaylee and I ended up being the two actors. We chose outfits that would go with the theme of the commercial. I wore purple lipstick so I just wore a big black t-shirt with a faded grey face on it. Shayley wore a ripped black shirt over a red shirt to match her red lipstick. After that, we chose a film date, since this was a 30 second commercial with only two different locations that were walking distance apart, this only took us one filming day. we went a little bit off-script but it worked. after we filmed, Shaylee used a fast beat song and some filters to give it more of an 80s punk vib

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, it just felt right.its li

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 ones would need a script. my groups short film was origi

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