Boats and Birds

Fall 2007

This is a music video I made for the song Boads and Birds by the group Gregory and the Hawk.

The assignment was called, "Edit to the Beat of Sound".
We had to take any sort of sound segment (music or dialogue or whatever) and create a video for it (rather than take footage and adding sound during editing).

It was the first video I made that was created completely by myself.

I don't have any permission to use the music (but this is student work and if I do get contacted by the creators of the song, I do hope they do grant permission and if not I will take this down).

I was enchanted by this song and I could see these images of what I imagined to accompany the lyrics. I had wonderful friends to assist me through transportation and encouragement to acting and moving props.

I am eternally grateful.

I would like to reshoot this one day, or re-edit what's left of the footage, but I am extremely proud of what came out of it.

I created the stage with cardboard, acrylic paint, dowels, thread, Popsicle sticks, red clothe napkins from Target, and lots of hot glue.
The backdrops were canvas boards I painted with acrylics.
The props were made with Popsicle sticks, acrylic paint, bristol paper, etc.
The stars were origami stars strung through twisted wire.

Edited with Video Vegas and Adobe Premier.




Previous projects included:

Recreate a movie scene - group project::
Recreate all the actions, camera shots, dialogue, etc as accurately as possible
We did a scene in Forrest Gump when he finds out he's a daddy.

Charette - group project::
Create a work in a week that represents the theme "shelter"
I "documented" with a video camera as my group members ran around encased in bubble wrap.

Later project::

Final Project - solo project::
I decided to create a Real World-esque fictional documentary on roommates who are having trouble living together.

Due to the nature of these projects (they involve multiple people scene in the footage they do not want released to the internet public). I cannot show these works.