Graduation

I have no video to go with this because I couldn't find my camera battery that day - these photos my mom just sent me. My parents are the best, and it was great for them to take care of me that weekend while I did the first major thing on my own, without Mike, since moving to boston. I love you both so much, thanks for supporting me through everything.

Road Trip / Field Trip to Cine Lab

Last Friday, half my film class went on a field trip to Fall River, Massachusetts to see the lab where our film gets processed and printed and get a better understanding for what is possible and how it all happens. More than learning about the lab, we enjoyed the beautiful spring day and excuse for a mini-road trip...
-serra


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Runtime is 3 1/2 minutes

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Make Me Videos.

Many of you know of or have even played with VideoString, my thesis project. It's going well, with one small problem. The existing vocabulary is way too limited. Not only are there not enough words to choose from, but the words themselves don't have enough different video options associated with them. How can I remedy this situation? Post a video blog about it, of course...

Click this link to check out the project:
http://videostring.blogspot.com

Then Click this link to check out the word list:
http://www.lanugo.org/videostring/WordList.html

Oh, and click this link to watch the video...


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Ashe asked a great question. "How do I get footage to you?"

To contribute your footage, post it somewhere. Ourmedia, Blip, Archive, your own domain... anywhere I can download it from. Then send me the link. headsoff at lanugo dot org.

Remember, I will trim the video and compress it so the less compressed the better for me. Also, it must be at least 2 seconds in length. Rock on.

Runtime is 1:54

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Can't Relate

I worked on this music video with some people from my school in December. I shot inside the apartments. Now its edited together with outdoor footage. Sweet. Check it out. Then check the band out at http://www.jointclarity.com/
-serra


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Runtime is 4 minutes ish

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Film 2

Here is the second project I've done for my film class. This one involved actually editing the film, which was a fun yet trying experience. I think it went pretty well. I realized sometime between now and the last film I posted that the film to video transfer equipment at school really does a bad job, and so I color-corrected this one and desaturated it to true black and white. I hope it looke nicer than the last one and it isn't just me getting carried away with color correction :-)

Oh yeah. and it really needs a sound track. If you know of one, please share it with me.

-serra


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Runtime is about a minute

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White Chapel

I just found this old video on my hard drive and had to share it. This is for my good friend, and college roommate, Becca. She wrote this script during a time when she was obsessed with Jack The Ripper, and we always joked about it when we lived together, so when I had to think of a studio production I wrote to her and asked if she'd let me make a no-budget rendition of it. Here's what happened.


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Runtime is 5:10

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Watch Me 16mm

I'm taking a film class this semester. yeah - film, not video. I've never worked with film before and its a little wild. I thought I'd show you my first creation. It's based on a funny little children's book called "Watch me", in which the character (a young child) begs her parents to watch as she slides, jumps, rides a bike, etc. At the end there is a bike crash. I have changed the story a bit in places. Well - ok it really isn't the same story, but it was fun anyways.


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Runtime is 1:54

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Farmer's Market II

I really appriciated all your comments on the first cut of this mini-doc. We decided that although we loved it, there was some basically inaudible audio in the middle and the story was a bit scattered, so we re-cut it and here is the second cut. Any of you who watched the first, let me know what you think about the changes. I'd love it. Thanks again everyone! enjoy..


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Runtime is 2:39

PS: The first cut is here.

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Farmer's Market

I'm taking a documentary class at Emerson this semester, and this is the first project for that class. The assignment was to make a documentary about anything at all, but it must be between 2 and 3 minutes long and use at least 3 documentary techniques (ie: interview, voiceover, narration, b-roll, live action...). My group decided to do a day in the life of a farmstand at the Harvard Square farmer's market.


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Runtime is 2:26

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The Solo

This is a video I made about 4 years ago when I was an undergraduate at Evergreen. I just came across it sorting through my hard drive, and thought what the heck right? So I compressed it, and here it is. I hope you enjoy it.
-serra


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Runtime is 3:33