Digital Portfolio (2019-2020)

I decided for the next film I work on I'll be doing the Irish Confederate War, or the 11 year war. I decided I'd do some research on Irish clothing in the 17th century and Irish Catholicism so I can get an idea of what the costuming will be as well as the religious side of the film. Mostly because costuming ended up being out of my budget for the last film so I'd rather look ahead so I can get a nice sum of money for the costuming. 17th Century Irish Clothing Materials- Woolen and linen clothes tended to be the dress of the everyman, while imported silk and satin tended to be the dress of the upper class. Animal furs were used for capes and jackets. Tartans made in Ireland were often sold to the Scottish. Colors- The Irish tended to love bright colors. The Ulster Army wore various colored cloaks, some red, some light blue, some deep blue, some green, white, and yellow cloaks. Several articles of clothing tended to be multicolored, often either striped, spotted, or ch...

Just a warning this blog is basically just gonna be a history lessons on a bunch of Irish Rebellions and Uprisings that interested me as possible topics for my next film after The Cave. I would recommend just skimming through the blog cause it will likely not be an entertaining read. I started in Wikipedia looking up the conflicts and then proceeded to find other websites in order to find the legitimate facts. (Irish) Nine Years War The Nine Years War took place from August 1594 to March 1603. Took place in Ireland and started with an Irish attack in Battle of the Ford of the Biscuits, ended with Irish surrender by O'Neill. The English had taken possession of Ireland in the 12th century. Following possession the English assimilate with the Irish, Irish Clans & Earls gain power. England controls the area around Dublin and Rural Ireland is controlled by the Clans. English try to extend their influence over the Dublin area while Hugh O'Neill, leader of the strongest Clan ...

Drizzi G I of course loved the blog post by my friend Gio, the best rapper you can get on SoundCloud. I like that he challenged himself by giving himself a smaller window of pre-production so he could test things in post-production. The work he's done so far is already rather impressive. His Before: His After: Obviously it's not professional grade, which I don't think you can expect that out of a high schooler without the studio and music video team, but for doing his own work I think he's doing an incredible job. He's been doing this for four years now and he's made massive strides in his production work in his music as well as his videos. He's absolutely killing it and I'm excited to see the finished product. Carey Zhu I also wanted to do Carey since I work right next to him and I'm constantly impressed by his work. He has a very tantalizing way of working that's way better than anything I think I could ever manage. He gets so ...

Editing Tips and Tricks I first started with a website called The Beat with an article called " 7 Essential Tips and Tricks for Mastering Adobe Premiere Pro" The first tip that they recommended was cherry picking your timeline. This is pretty self explanatory. The second tip was nesting, which is putting your sequences into other sequences. They recommend this because it helps with processing and rendering as well as keeping your timeline clean looking. Third tip is time remapping and speed ramping, which is essentially just a style to make your clips look cleaner. Fourth tip is just a video on motion tracking for folks like me that are kind've spooked out by After Effects. Fifth tip was just about color grading and how it can make your film look incredible. Sixth tip is slow motion, how to make it smooth and when's the right time to use it. The seventh tip was just a video explaining how to animate in the essential graphics panel. I think I'l...

Exploration of Ideas At the beginning of the year I knew I wanted to do my own take on Allegory of the Cave. It was one of the first things we read in my World Literature class and while we were reading I could kind've just see scenes coming together in my head and I knew it was a challenge I wanted to take on.  Planning While planning for this I watched a lot of videos and read a few articles discussing the philosophy of the Allegory and honestly gained a lot of critical information I needed for my interpretation of things. Honestly I think my ideas match the same ideals as Plato and Socrates, sort of critiquing the government and how things are handled. I'm not an extremely political person (in fact I'm a moderate) but there are still some really messed up ways the government handles things and I think showing an exaggerated form of it is perfect to exemplify the metaphor. Producing To be honest there hasn't been much production yet. I've learned a lot o...

Update For What I'm Upto At the moment i think I'm still good for shooting, I still have the final scene to script and still need to storyboard, but I have my costuming done, finished my casting, and have a lot of things done for what I could work on. I'm still a little behind due to having to work the past 6 days and my computer being broken but I've completed what I can at school and I feel satisfied i can still meet the production deadline. Picture Proof Andrew Casher Location Release Avi Dave Zach Towner Carlos Araiza Mike McConnel Drew Stuffick I wasn't quite able to get photos of everyone since I had to just try to get pages when I could. However, I can wrap up everything else that needs done in the next 4 days since I can't film in the class period or anything. Sneak Peak Just to show off the work I do have done (only first page of the script because I plan on editing it before I start filming on Saturday) ...

I felt if I was going to create a film as a modern interpretation of the allegory, I should do my research and really break down the story so I don't lose the key components of it. So, I'm going to go over the events before the story, the story itself, and its affect on society to this day. Before The Story In the story Plato says that the person narrating is Socrates, his old teacher who was executed by the Athen government for "corrupting the minds of Athen youths." According to my english teacher he was apparently offered either death or exile and he chose death. Most people think of Socrates as a voluntary scapegoat since he chose this way and it points to him being something of a martyr. In reality Socrates was moreso a preacher of free and individual thinking, which the government did not appreciate and actually falls in line with the theme I want my films to have this year. Plato released the story saying that they were Socrates words and not his own,...