As I Run

Just wanted to make a post talking about things... but I'm not quite sure what I want to say.. so I'll keep it short

    I just recently put out a video... it is realization, but at the same time, I just can't explain why I feel stupid. It seems as though no matter how much you learn or know there is something else to try and learn... and the unfortunate truth is there is no easy way to download it all...

    I'm reading this book How To Make Friends and Influence People and the further I go the more I realize... which I do and don't like lol

So back to this video I just made
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07iSSlUw-tg

    When you aren't the person shooting the video you sometimes feel less control in post... That's how I felt with this video. Until I was actually editing the video I didn't even know the full plot outline, I had just scene a few random clips from it.
    So the thing about this particular video is the only thing I did as far as making this video went was the editing... Which is common in the professional world, but ussually I'm there, I'm the Director, It's my vision, I'm the camera man, and so this time I felt really out of control. But the truth of the matter is that it turned out quite well, there are only a few things I really, really wanted to change (that I could have done).
     This was filmed with my old camera (the Sanyo Xacti). But when I was done editing it had the feel of my Panasonic because of some color correction I did near the end of editing. Another thing I really liked about this video is I composited 3 or 4 different audio tracks to match the feel of each scene.
    I think this is huge in preparation for my upcoming short Surfer Dudes. This video was more to teach Ethan and Chase about the importance of multi cuts; this was filmed before Ima Get You, which was a real showing of multi cuts... my attempt to prove it to Chase and Ethan.
   As things go, they now understand the importance, but if you put it this way.. Ima Get You was my demonstration of multi cut action and The Sandwich was Chases attempt at it with help from Ethan. When I reviewed the video they shot it needed some serious work but after all was done I think it turned out well, everyone has been highly impressed with it, so all is well.
This is getting to be a lot longer than I expected, but that's a good thing...

Thanks For Reading,


Alex Chandler