I have always been inspired by documentary-based films that give a first person perspective. Rather than viewing a documentary about a historic figure, I decided to make my own visuals that illustrated a "day in the life" of a student-athlete. My intentions were originally to capture the experiences of a typical college student on a weekend, but it was not going to meet the proper time requirement. Realizing this, I decided to use various clips from volleyball matches to go along with Al Pacino's "Inches" speech in Any Given Sunday. The transition between the vibrant music sampled in the beginning to his speech grabbed the audiences attention, as well as recognizing the true intentions behind the video itself. I truly had fun attempting to capture the various visuals and putting a together a mini documentary.
Spike Jonze is well known for his work for video art visuals as a director, producer, actor, and so on. One of his most well known contributions is towards Where the Wild Things Are. Jonze was responsible for screenwriting and directing, as well as an actor. Rather focusing on his films, I made a tribute video for his work towards music videos. Jonze has worked for many critically acclaimed artists including Kanye West, Ludacris, Weezer, Beastie Boys, Jay Z, and Daft Punk. I found his visuals for Flashing Lights by Kanye West truly captured the true meaning behind the lyrics in an extremely dramatic fashion. I decided to create a tribute towards this song that mixed in some flashy visuals, as well as a spoof off of the lyrics.
The primary focus of this video was to implement certain filters, effects, audio clips, and edits on visuals in order to demonstrate the true effect on motion graphics. At home, I have a dog named Cooper and my brother has a dog named Emmitt. Both dogs are beagle mixes and are truly adorable. I decided to implement various clips of them for the motion graphics assignment. By using iMovie, I was able to change the speed, audio, size of images/visuals, and overall effect of the original clips. One of the biggest issues was the fact that the original visuals were recorded in a portrait view, rather than a landscape. By using Ken Burns effects, as well as presenting multiple visuals side-to-side, iMovie allowed me to focus in on the clips rather than having blank space that would not attract the audience.