Sunday, March 24, 2013

Girl vs Bear - My First Video on My New Channel

Today I discovered my love for video creation. It's vastly different from my normal engineering job. I feel like I have ignored the creative side of my brain for years now: going to college for an engineering degree, taking mostly technical classes, and having done nothing involving creativity. Looking back now, I should have started this a long time ago. 5 years ago, as a freshman in college, a few friends and I collaborated on a parody music video of "Jizz in My Pants." I remembered how much fun we had, and often wondered why we didn't stick with it. Maybe now I could be Youtube famous and do that full time.

This first video is titled "Girl Vs. Bear." Now it isn't what you think it is; sorry to disappoint that you won't see an actual fight between a girl and a bear. It is simply a video revolving my little sister fighting with a teddy bear, who can not move on its own and requires someone behind him to move his limbs.

I had no idea I was even filming this video. This was the day before the day I filmed the next video. I had some time to kill, and I wanted to learn how to use my video editing program. I only had a normal camera, so this video was shot in 720p HD, not 1080p HD, which was a little disappointing.

This video had no script; I shot every scene based on the scene before, and most of the shots only took one shot, except for the scene with the bear walking, that took a few. It was too heavy for my sister to move, so it kept falling on top of her. You can obviously see that I am behind the bear, and my sister, who knew nothing about filming, was holding the camera.

This video turned out better that I ever expected. Sometime you just have to go with the flow.

As always, comments and criticism are welcomed, but if I don't like the comment, I won't look at it.

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