the last two weekends I’ve been taking a video production class at Bay Area Video Coalition. it was a lot of fun.
in the class i learned about lighting a set and holding a microphone, working with a camera and editing in Final Cut Pro.
the class split into two groups for filming. my group went to delores park, interviewing people about music and ipods and the weekend. we filmed this guy with a guitar, who sang us a song he wrote. I wound up using that song as the background for one of my videos.
after filming, the next weekend we learned about editing. I wasnt very creative with the first video, because I just wanted to get something done so I would have a chance to experiment.
here are the videos. You’ll just need Quicktime 7 to watch them. (encoded with H.264)
1. Delores Park
“Weapons of Mass Deception”, a song by a guy named Mike in Delores Park. Very San Francisco. July 17th, 2005. 120 seconds, 11 megabytes. In this video I just wanted to use the footage from class and crank it out.
2. Bridge (Interlude) by Utada Hikaru
This is a little instrumental bridge from the Deep River album. 70 seconds, 7 megabytes. Easy and fun to cut film for. I tried to be a bit more experimental in editing this, and play with some of the tools that FCP gives you.
Ganesh!