Napoleon Dynamite Trailer

We recreated movie trailers this time, and got new groups. Sadly, we could only choose a High school related movie trailer. We went with the cult classic Napoleon Dynamite. 

Now I still haven't seen the movie, so I'm sure I did not do it any justice at all. But here's how it went down.



After choosing the movie Gaige and I filled out a beat sheet on google docs, which we did not use at all while filming. Then after that we decided on my friend Dayton Henke to play Napoleon. 

He came over to my house to film, but I forgot to check out a camera so I ended up using my mom's iPhone 7. Still looked good though. We filmed half of the scenes, and then at school a couple days later Gavin and I filmed the scenes with Trisha, played by Lindsey Ling. And we finished the scenes with Pedro with myself playing him. 

Editing was just overlaying our shots on the original video, and lip-syncing. Didn't take long at all, as you can most likely tell. I'm honestly not proud of this at all.

Victorious Music Video

So this was the most ambitious video project I've ever done. Which is kinda sad now that I think about. But anyway, I chose the music video Victorious by Panic! at the Disco to recreate because I wanted to have fun actually filming the scenes. Lauryn mostly filmed though, because she's a champ. 

Pre Production and Production

Before even starting to film, Jess had to fill out a timestamp sheet, Lauryn figured out the cast, and all three of us came up with props and costumes needed. We filmed the dodgeball scenes in the gym at school, but we missed some scenes due to time constraints. For the rest of the video, Jess kindly offered up her house, and so on a Sunday we headed over there, made some props, and started filming with the cast and crew. 

It took 5 hours, but we got all the shots needed. It felt amazing. We also had lots of fun.

Editing

Then came editing. You bet everything you own that I stepped up to the plate. I swung and missed the first two times, but on the third swing I cracked down and annihilated Adobe Premiere Pro. I added some slow sliding effects, zooms, slow-mo, color correction, plopped the audio of the actual song in, and all the transitions by hand. 

Lauryn made the credits, and Jess made the little intro stamp of the song. Copyright stuff. Surprised we didn't get striked, honestly.

Haunted by Regrets at Fifteen

What I wish we would've done was get the last couple of shots for the dodgeball scenes. Next time I know to not skimp on anything. The audio transition past that part really hurts the video and flow of the music. Oh well.

Please watch it we all worked hard. Shout out to my boy Jack Weidner though for his great performance as Breadbin Urine.

I didn't mean for it to look so sad, but I guess the art reflects the artist. I made a cone, some ice-cream balls, a bowl, a spoon and a super cool table. It took a while to texture and bump map everything.

sorry for turning this in late.