Scenes Unseen

I was takin a look back into all the projects I've done since I've started doing videography.

I thought about how far I've come and everyone that has been involved or helped me transition to who I am now.

I want to truly thank them for that. I really couldn't get anywhere without them.

So I'm going to share my first school project that I had to do. It was for my media production class with Jeff Palmer.

It's called "Possible Stalker," I'm featured in it.

Bravo to my terrible acing skills.

We kind of did this on the fly as a final project. And I spent like 60 hours on the video.

So check it out.

https://youtu.be/0sTTg3pctNc

DIY

I've been struggling with getting steady shots on the fly, for a while now. setting up on a tripod while moving has been difficult.

Even free handing the camera was worse. Everything was shaky.

Nothing works unless you buy high quality products like iGlideCam, Merlin Steadicam.

Or even higher end gear like DJI Ronin or the Freefly MOVI.

All those things cost no less than 200 to 3000 dollars.

So I started to look for the cheaper alternative. Started doing research and came up with a video of a DO-IT-YOURSELF video of a Merlin steadicam.

Took about $20-$45 worth of tools plus borrowing some equipment but me and my buddy Quit, yes his name is QUIT, finished it.

The finished product is below.

Deals? Yeah Right.

Like most Americans in this country, we all rush online to buy products that are on sale for CYBER MONDAY!!

I made the mistake of believing that I was gonna get great deals on great equipment this year.

Okay, anything in general.

As I am scrolling through the websites; Amazon, BestBuy, eBay, BHPhoto you name it.

I see these "deals." And I am thinking, "wow, that is just bloody amazing." $200 off on this, $150 off on that. They all look like good deals.

If you carefully navigate from Amazon to eBay or BH, then the deal you see isn't a deal at all on another website. It is all a trick.

I almost bought gear that wasn't really on sale and I would've been none the wiser.

Never trust the internet. THEY LIE.

-Timothy

Holy Crap.

This past weekend I got the chance to catch the movie CREED.
Can I say bravo to Michael B. Jordan for putting an amazing performance on.

This movie is probably one of the greatest installments of the Rocky Franchise. It works just as well as a sequel to the original Rocky movie.

With CREED, Ryan Coogler takes an existing mythology and lovingly turns it into something new and very real, while Jordan takes a character who could easily be seen as unsympathetic, and turns him into someone exceedingly relatable.

Jordan plays Adonis Creed, a kid that liked to fight, and was brought up by his father's wife.
His father, Apollo Creed, died before he was born. Fighting Ivan Drago in the ring as we remember in Rocky IV.

Adonis quits his job in a business firm and moves to Philly to find Rocky Balboa, Sylvester Stallone, to train him. There, he meets Bianca, an up-n-coming singer with a degenerative hearing disorder who he also falls in love with.

Creed isn’t complicated. It’s a simple story with just enough humanity sprinkled throughout to capture the hearts and minds of audiences who -- trust me when I say this -- will be cheering at the end of a movie that’s not nearly as predictable as you might think. You may love Stallone as Rambo, but Rambo’s the action star anti-hero. Rocky Balboa is Stallone’s heart and soul: the character that made him a star nearly 40 years ago, and still brings out his best.

Unlike the previous "Rocky" movies, however, Stallone wasn’t necessarily best suited to write this story. Instead, he chose Coogler, a filmmaker who’s still in touch with the struggle of becoming a professional filmmaker, and then some.

That is what makes "Creed," the seventh "Rocky" movie, one of the best "Rocky" movies.

Just some thoughts I had about this amazing film I saw.

-Timothy

"I Rap"

I made a natural sound piece, that my professor asked us to for my final in one of his classes.

It's about two rappers, BTodd and Tommy Flow, that I know personally and their producer.

We had to make it where my voice track is not anywhere on the video. So I laid BTodd's track, MIND, under the entire video.

Check it out below.

I have been working on a class project with the Victim's Impact group.

They are a non-profit organization that does public speaking against Drinking and Driving.
We are creating their memorium video to remember the victims.
We just interviewed our first family for the video, and the mother broke down mid interview. It was crazy.

But our next interview is Thursday, so I'll update soon.

On Saturday, I shot the music video I was talking about in my last post. Honestly, I had a blast. We did a bunch of different shots and I'm currently in the process of editing the video now.

I'll share what I'm not using below. Enjoy!

-Timothy

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