Jeremiah Henderson's Blog

This Semester we did 3 projects: Camera Assignment,  Commercial, and A Short Film. The Camera Assignment was focused on hitting six types of shots that consist of Extreme-Closeup, Closeup, Medium, Wide Shot, Extreme Wide, Over The Shoulder, and Point of View. Using those six shots we would create a film sing the key principles of film making: Directing, Lighting, Audio, Editing, Writing, Cinematography. The rest of the project was of our own vision. With the project scheduling was the biggest problem as it was an inconvenient time for everyone. Out of the three films this one was the only one were I think I could have done more to help and make the film.  For the Commercial project we had to sell a product using a video that is either 15, 30, or 60 seconds long. My group did a Beats By Dre commercial and the same key principles of filming were just as important as the last project and will continue to stay important all the way through out a film career. This project was bett...

Short Film (Final)  from April to May, me and five others worked on a short film for video class. The video was the hardest as we needed to have 3-5 minutes worth of footage as opposed to 1-2 minutes. The video was also not a parody like the movie trailer project. Before the project we had to completely change the script leaving only one shot in from it in the final video. This was a massive hurdle as we didn't start out with a good script (sorry).  When filming we found out that we were missing a storyboard, a crucial part to filming, and instead we needed to make up some shots resulting in a very very long shot. The film was a goofy comedy about a gamer who got robbed by a unskilled robber. While the video was very successful in making people laugh at funny scenes. The video was still with flaws such as we didn't show footage of the robber going up stairs after the fact of he was behind the gamer when he started looking for the robber. Another small but still a challenge wa...

Background context For the past month me and a team of 5 have been working on a group project for e-Comm about remaking a trailer that takes place in a school setting. The project was a harder one as it was the first time that we needed the actors to actually talk. The struggle to manage time and to record good footage for the video was evermore present in this project. Main project gist The first week was a slow week as we didn't tackle the project early to get more time to edit the final product; however, we are still on schedule and ready to finish the project on time. We did more the second week as we filmed the school scenes. The scenes were more of ok rather than spot on to the trailer. The rest of the week we planned on what the locations would be and when we would film. In the next week we filmed the rest of the footage that we needed to finish the video. The biggest problem with the filming schedule was time to edit. We ended up not having enough time to edit the vid...

Background Throughout the month of January, I have been in a group with 3 other people to create a music video similar to another music video. Unlike other projects, this one is more built for entertainment rather than news and information. This was more of a test to see if we can recreate difficult shots music teams made in their videos. Our Video We had a big advantage when filming our video, we didn't have a video to recreate or copy from, we could make anything we wanted within reason of course. The song was cradles by SubUrban, a no copywrited song that had no music video. With this being the song we quick had a sad tone with the song and choose to have it be the theme and then we would go through the day of someone with a lot of disorders that made him more sad. Eventually we decide to add a shadow figure to follow him around harassing him when ever it can to add to a paranoia effect. With all of theses ideas put in to the vide...