Installation

For our installation we want to go with a comedic route. We will use found footage of Miley Cyrus, Lindsey Lohan and Amanda Bynes to edit together a video portraying how each of these girls has rebeled and "fallen of the band wagon" so to speak.

We will edit it in one of these ways:

• Split screen 3 ways. In each slot will be one of the three character.
• One Screen with no split screen

Our potential moral and purpose:

• Opition: Miley Cyrus is the better of the three

We plan on making our video look something along the lines of Aaron Valdez’s work. 

It is a possibility that we will have three different tvs each playing different clips from either their past or news reels.

While playing the projection on a screen there will also be actresses that will come out and preform the rolls of the three celebrities.

We want to end with possibly a Split screen of Bynes and Lohans mug shots. Since cyrus doesn’t have a mug shot she will be in the middle and as the mug shots zoom and blur Cyrus’s picture will grow larger eventually fitting the full screen.

Cucalorus Response

I had such a blast at Cucalorus. I was able to go with some fellow classmates as well as some friends that heard me talking about it and became interested as well. Every screening I went to was unique in its own way. Unfortunately I was limited to the viewings at the Thalian Hall because of show times and my schedule. I wish I could have made it to a different location but I will have another chance next year.

In one of the screenings, Pioneer, I was initially intrigued by the performance at the beginning. The lady got up and sang a song in some foreign language and the reaction from the audience was amazing. After, during the actual screening, im not sure if this was intentional or not but I liked it. There were moments in the film where the speakers would switch and the audio would get louder or there would just be a faint sound coming from the left or right speaker. The speakers happen to be behind me so every time it happened it almost startled me and made me look behind me to see who was there or what was happening. It kept me on my toes and if it was in fact an accident it was a good one!

I had different reactions to all the screenings but this one in particular was the most unique. 

My Focus

I would really like to continue to focus on expanding my editing skills. I want to be able to graduate knowing how to successfully edit any genre of film. I personally think my skills have improved significantly. I know the basics, give or take, for editing narrative and I love learning how to also edit experimentally. I would love to further my skills and one day be a bad ass all around great editor. I want for someone to mention my name as a potential editor on his or her project and someone else say “she is awesome, she can edit anything you give her and make it look amazing! I say we use her!”

As for Cucalorus I have a ton of films picked out that I want to see. Which ones will depend on what time I get off work. 

Self Portrait

For my self portrait I really want to film everything with a GoPro. I really like the way the image has that fish eye look.

My life is very chaotic and stressful at times and when I was young I struggled to find a way to calm myself and relieve some stress. I always knew that just simply sitting outdoors alone or not made me begin to relax. Then I started swimming in the 3^rd grade and continued to swim year round until I was 18 then became a coach for a few years. I even worked at a pool facility year round for 5 years. Once I reached an age where stress became more of an issue I realized that I love swimming not only because I love the exercise and the sport itself but also because I realized that it was my way to escape even though it was just for a few min. Swimming is my meditation.

For this project I want to use the GoPro to film various shots of me swimming laps in a pool. I want to have multiple underwater shots and some out of the water too. I hope to start my video with a dive into the pool and end with my hand touching the wall at the end of the swim.

For the chaotic part I wasn’t really sure what to film until someone started talking about the fair. I planned on going anyway so this gives me a reason. I don’t know what I will film so it will probably just be everything.

Somehow I want layer the two images to show how swimming pulls me away form all my life struggles.