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Listening to: Mad At Gravity-Letter To Myself
Mood: Forgetful

I obviously haven’t updated this in quite awhile. Needless to say, my expectations of making weekly videos during the summer fell far from short. After finally landing a job following two months of unemployment I suddenly realized that school starts in a month…and now in a little over a week…great! So far I’m registered for 4 film production classes which is absolute overkill. I’m contemplating the idea of dropping one but I’m still undecided.

Well, I never did finish up that video with Phong in it. It’s still in the works and likely will be for awhile until I can get the shots I need.

In the meantime, here’s the first movie I made for my basic 16mm film class during last semester that I never posted:

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School’s coming to an end which means final school projects. Here’s what my group made for our basic 16mm class:

I’m still working on a video Phong and I shot…2 months ago? Geez, should be done next week though. In other news, Cassanova, the guy I made that last video for is going to get to perform that song in Arizona because of the popularity of that video which is awesome! It’ll be part of a “Go Green” rally. Unfortunately, since it’ll be a nonprofit rally, they will be unable to cover his lodging and travel expenses. So if you can help him out: clicky.

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This last weekend I shot my first ever music video for local rap artist, Cassanova. It was definitely a fun shoot. We shot in collaboration with some business majors who are participating in a National Competition. I dunno the exact details but the video was in support of the American Public Transportation Association’s (APTA) “Just Imagine” campaign whose goal is to increase ridership on the trolley by 3% next semester. As a result, we got hooked up with a trolley all to ourselves for filming in.

If the business majors land in the top 3 in the nation (more youtube views will better their chances), they will be flown out to Washington D.C. to present their campaign…which means more notice for my videos and, likewise more notice for Cassanova. So please spread this around!

In terms of editing, it took the usual 40 hours but it was underlined by the fact that many of my finals were next week. Overall, I’m happy with it considering the amount of time I had to work with. Check it:

Download Go Green in .mp4 format

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Hey everybody, I realize it has been awhile. Just to update you guys on a few things: I turned 20 on April 9th so that was cool. I’m also quitting my graveyard shift job next week meaning that I’ll have more time to edit…well, that is, until I get another job. Hopefully that won’t occur too soon though =P. Anyways, here’s the newest video made. I spent roughly 40 hours on it (but that’s kinda expected nowadays, huh) and made it for everyone who wished me a Happy Birthday =).

Download Birthday Present in .mp4 format

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I know it’s spring break and all but I’m piled sky high in coursework right now so it’s been pretty difficult to find some free time for editing videos. I will tell you that I’ve shot 2 videos in the last few weeks but I’m not sure when I’ll be able to get them out to you all. You’ll definitely see them on here when they’re done though.

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This is why Frito’s are awesome!

Download Finger Lickin’ Good in .wmv format
Download Finger Lickin’ Good in .mp4 format (iPod friendly)

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Listening to: Killswitch Engage-Fixation on the Darkness
Mood: Satisfied

I know, I know…took me long enough, right? I think I spent roughly 40 hours editing this. Those of you that used to play Goldeneye on the N64 back in the day are going to love this:

Download GoldenPhong in .wmv format
Download GoldenPhong in .mov format

As you can see, we’re posting our videos on youtube now so as to reach out to a wider audience and get our name out there. But, so as to remain loyal to all you hardcore fans, I’ll still post links so you can download both .wmv and .mov versions of the videos =).

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Listening to: Diecast-Fire/Damage
Mood: Blah…

The Goldeneye video is taking a lot longer than I thought. I edited for around 12 hours on Sunday and it’s only about half way done. I should have it done by Wednesday. Sorry for the delay…but trust me when I say that the wait will be worth it.

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Listening to: Sevendust-Disease
Mood: Stressed

This week has been rough in terms of realizing the overwhelming amount of work I’ll have to do for school in the next few weeks. I suppose if I weren’t taking a week off from putting videos on here that that would have driven me insane by now. Simply, this time off is much needed.

Anyways, yeah, the news on the hard drive: it’s shot. It makes that “clicking noise of death” and shows no sign of working anytime soon, even after I performed the infamous freezer trick. Fortunately, I still have the Goldeneye video on my tape so I’ll just have to re-upload it and start all over again.

I purchased a replacement external hard drive this week called “Mybook.”

It’s 1 terabyte (4x the amount I had on my previous drive, I figured if I was going to buy a new drive that I might as well upgrade while I’m at it). It’s too bad my laptop sucks for editing but it’ll have to suffice until I upgrade to a Mac.

As for the “Goldeneye Project”, mark your calendars for Monday…that is, unless I drop this hard drive too…

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Listening to: Black Market Hero-Truth Serum
Mood: Disappointed

In the midst of editing the dubbed “Goldeneye Project” my hard drive took a dive. Rather, I tripped on one of the cables and the drive fell to the ground. Initially, it stopped working but after a few restarts I got the thing kickin’ again.

However, while I was at home the drive got knocked down once again. Now it makes some strange clicking sound every time it’s on. My laptop won’t bring up the files on the drive either which isn’t so great considering that I have all my video files on there.

…so much for having that video done by Monday.

Looks like I’ll be taking a week or so off to get a new hard drive and attempt to recover those files.

 This is not a video… 

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