This has certainly been a class to reminisce about. College, I have found, doesn't teach you, as much as it teaches you to teach yourself. In technical classes that give you tools and direction, this is prevalent. We are given an instructor with more knowledge than time, and she has found a way to transfer as much of it as the individual is willing to absorb. This class will be valuable to me throughout a career in any field. I certainly hope it is related, but hey, I'm walking away with more than I ever have from a collegiate experience.
To list what I have learned is as ridiculous as the numerous sleepless nights in Reece. Lovers of Seattle certainly rest more frequently. The technical takeaways are uncountable. However, the two most important things to carry onward have been the importance of relationships and planning. Relationships are easier for me, but learning to appreciate planning and what it gives a filmmaker easily fits into a MasterCard commercial.
I have loved the intensity and how we are forced to become colleagues & compadres, but more importantly to rely on one another. I hope to take my relationships from this class To Infinity and Beyond, or at least to the professional world.
I have to say thank you. Finally having a teacher that has made me excited about my major. I have eked through this department with nothing much but a bitterness for it being so behind the times. While partially my fault, I am again excited and will be a proud alumnus now, I truly believe.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
modestly called an Artist
Never in youth did I consider any artistic field. An artist draws or paints or designs "stuff". I finally realized that I can create stuff as well. I have never enjoyed a task in life like the grandiose ones that encompass collaboration and expression through visual story telling. No matter how minuscule the story, very little can be done without relying on another for some form of assistance. I expect others to be better than me, and am often pleased with their powers.
Putting ideas in print to form a visual style is grueling, daunting and an all around bore of a project. But the final product is something that lends a gratification unexperienced by most and loved by everyone it touches. Even if they love to hate it. I hope to touch a spark, be it of anger or happiness, evoked emotion is a gift. I can only wish for a career full of incredible people with even more incredible ideals that I can spread throughout with the tools of photography and motion.
My form of art, at its most basic form is entertainment, but when a man is downtrodden he shall still find food and entertainment. If my entertainment is sought out, no greater gift shall be given to me.
Putting ideas in print to form a visual style is grueling, daunting and an all around bore of a project. But the final product is something that lends a gratification unexperienced by most and loved by everyone it touches. Even if they love to hate it. I hope to touch a spark, be it of anger or happiness, evoked emotion is a gift. I can only wish for a career full of incredible people with even more incredible ideals that I can spread throughout with the tools of photography and motion.
My form of art, at its most basic form is entertainment, but when a man is downtrodden he shall still find food and entertainment. If my entertainment is sought out, no greater gift shall be given to me.
DShizzyLR
My choice for camera was quite simple. My Director of Photography was advanced in the technicalities of the Canon 7D, as he himself is an owner of this fine piece of equipment. Also, other members in my group were planning to utilize the Canon aps-c sized sensor and its qualities. The more heads with information can only make mine and my DP's job a little simpler.
The camera choice was easy, and after using a few different lenses, my choice of glass was made even simpler. I had the privilege of using the Zeiss primes with different focal lengths and it was clear where my vision lied. You hear constantly that the camera doesn't matter as much as what's in front of and behind it. That has never come into focus as well as it did with a Canon and Zeiss coupling. My photographer was extremely capable of racking focus with the fine quality leant by Zeiss' engineering and it rendered beautiful imagery. The amazing details cannot be described, only seen.
Our training in TCF begins with the JVC, and it has taken me awhile to garner any respect for the camera. I believe being forced to work with any tool urges a loathing of the such that can only be diminished when doors open to new experiences. Learning more about the JVC has also given me a heightened respect, but being allowed to experiment with other tools has broaden artistic horizons as well. I was very grateful to be able to use the Canon 7D, but more especially the Zeiss lenses. Watching their amazing capabilities in post production has made me a believer.
The camera choice was easy, and after using a few different lenses, my choice of glass was made even simpler. I had the privilege of using the Zeiss primes with different focal lengths and it was clear where my vision lied. You hear constantly that the camera doesn't matter as much as what's in front of and behind it. That has never come into focus as well as it did with a Canon and Zeiss coupling. My photographer was extremely capable of racking focus with the fine quality leant by Zeiss' engineering and it rendered beautiful imagery. The amazing details cannot be described, only seen.
Our training in TCF begins with the JVC, and it has taken me awhile to garner any respect for the camera. I believe being forced to work with any tool urges a loathing of the such that can only be diminished when doors open to new experiences. Learning more about the JVC has also given me a heightened respect, but being allowed to experiment with other tools has broaden artistic horizons as well. I was very grateful to be able to use the Canon 7D, but more especially the Zeiss lenses. Watching their amazing capabilities in post production has made me a believer.
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