> moving images
... don't really have much use for words lately ... and tis not as if i have nothing to say, i still do and a heck alot of it too! ... but i figured my words have left me and the need to purge write; in the end, lost out to another form of "expression" ...
near 2 weeks into rediscovering iMovie and it's basic abilities and qualities, and im stuck in a personal perpetual churning function, a virginal-slave to a system that spits out moving images as fast as i can find images toshove put into it ... and that's not really a lot, since im grappling with old found footage and an even stronger desire to film/record even newer stuff to feed the image-making-machine ... but i hesitate and hold myself back again and again ... i want and need everything to be "in-place" and ready (hence my anal working style all these years) ... but even that has fallen behind in recent days; the sheer joy and excitement of seeing experimental imagery unfold and rendered in the system has brought a new "high" and satisfaction that i've had ever felt for a long while now ... finally, a seemingly false sense of "control" is back in my hands ... but of coz ol' murphy's law doesn't sit on my side of the bench for long ...
rigged-up a handheld camera-stand (basically a dustban-handle/rod crazy-tapped to my panasonic-dv-cam :p) and spent an entire evening yesterday filming an exterior sequence; just the family taking a simple dinner ... and even with curious stares from everyone at the neighbourhood central; as i held the camera as i walked, the same stares i've gotten all this while in the industry; t'was fine, i was used to it ... t'was all part of the job :) ... but before i over-glamorize it and to put a long story short, i reached home later to realize that nothing was recorded. nothing was filmed at all. the tape (which i had hurriedly shoved into the camera before leaving the house) was put on non-recording-mode. muthafcukah. and of coz i had crazy-tapped the camera so tight, i didn't leave space for the viewfinder to be opened ... *sigh* ... surffice to say, more precautions would have to be made and planned for next time round ... something that i've "unlearnt" these past few months, all that had been ingrained within me for the past decade ... dammit! ;p
self-decadence breeds complacency.
... IMHO, of coz :)
for the past 2 weeks, i have become a "filmmaker". which is essentially bogus, becoz with the right system and equipment, ANYBODY can be a "filmmaker"! ... and admittedly most times that irritates and pisses me off to no end; a slap to my face for slogging it out all these years ... but i digress ... and tho i slam not myself for this new endeavour, i too lay no claim to that "title", but rather to humble myself with being a newborn disciple of moving images; as i sit on another side of the media-making-machine (and even if i've sat endless nights next to editors :p) ... and i ain't blowin' smoke up yer a$$ too! HAH!
and even more so the reason i have not gone into "narrative" sequences yet. dun want to nor need to tell a "story" yet, just content with mucking about with visuals, to be able to blend images and music to provoke an emotion ... and before i can go further and beyond; i want to know my own limitations with the systems first. i want to be able to edit simply on my iMovie. Final Cut Pro (Apple Editing System) will be an eventuality, but not yet. in what is essentially to be a Do-It-Yourself exercise; i want to go down to the basics, even if i haveta slog it out by myself (which i have been, clicking this button here and there, screaming obscenities at the results or dancing around the room when an effect works.). and i reckon i need to "unlearn" alla the shortcuts i've been put thru all these years. heh.
and a mini-collection of personal video-clips i have created now and i am proud of myself. i am happy. and that's a good thing :)
and i humbly and am pleased to present them here and here (click under "my vidz") ... :p
tho please do bare in mind, they are not to be reproduced anywhere commercially, as the music rights belong not to me ... and i''d love to do this for a living tho muahahahaha :p ... oh how i wish i could work with "original music" ... anyone interested? :)
near 2 weeks into rediscovering iMovie and it's basic abilities and qualities, and im stuck in a personal perpetual churning function, a virginal-slave to a system that spits out moving images as fast as i can find images to
rigged-up a handheld camera-stand (basically a dustban-handle/rod crazy-tapped to my panasonic-dv-cam :p) and spent an entire evening yesterday filming an exterior sequence; just the family taking a simple dinner ... and even with curious stares from everyone at the neighbourhood central; as i held the camera as i walked, the same stares i've gotten all this while in the industry; t'was fine, i was used to it ... t'was all part of the job :) ... but before i over-glamorize it and to put a long story short, i reached home later to realize that nothing was recorded. nothing was filmed at all. the tape (which i had hurriedly shoved into the camera before leaving the house) was put on non-recording-mode. muthafcukah. and of coz i had crazy-tapped the camera so tight, i didn't leave space for the viewfinder to be opened ... *sigh* ... surffice to say, more precautions would have to be made and planned for next time round ... something that i've "unlearnt" these past few months, all that had been ingrained within me for the past decade ... dammit! ;p
... IMHO, of coz :)
for the past 2 weeks, i have become a "filmmaker". which is essentially bogus, becoz with the right system and equipment, ANYBODY can be a "filmmaker"! ... and admittedly most times that irritates and pisses me off to no end; a slap to my face for slogging it out all these years ... but i digress ... and tho i slam not myself for this new endeavour, i too lay no claim to that "title", but rather to humble myself with being a newborn disciple of moving images; as i sit on another side of the media-making-machine (and even if i've sat endless nights next to editors :p) ... and i ain't blowin' smoke up yer a$$ too! HAH!
and even more so the reason i have not gone into "narrative" sequences yet. dun want to nor need to tell a "story" yet, just content with mucking about with visuals, to be able to blend images and music to provoke an emotion ... and before i can go further and beyond; i want to know my own limitations with the systems first. i want to be able to edit simply on my iMovie. Final Cut Pro (Apple Editing System) will be an eventuality, but not yet. in what is essentially to be a Do-It-Yourself exercise; i want to go down to the basics, even if i haveta slog it out by myself (which i have been, clicking this button here and there, screaming obscenities at the results or dancing around the room when an effect works.). and i reckon i need to "unlearn" alla the shortcuts i've been put thru all these years. heh.
and a mini-collection of personal video-clips i have created now and i am proud of myself. i am happy. and that's a good thing :)
and i humbly and am pleased to present them here and here (click under "my vidz") ... :p
tho please do bare in mind, they are not to be reproduced anywhere commercially, as the music rights belong not to me ... and i''d love to do this for a living tho muahahahaha :p ... oh how i wish i could work with "original music" ... anyone interested? :)
