I am blown away by creativity. When someone takes a photo of a part of the school I've never seen before, when they shoot a flower from an angle I've never thought of... anything I see that's original is impressive. I love it. The mind behind it - how does someone come up with something no one else has thought of yet? Creativity and freshness is highly valued in the business world as well. Design something new and people's attention is drawn to it. For example, Cirque de Soleil completely remade the tired trope of the Circus after... 100 years? This video has a performance with a fairly simple idea, but one I've never seen before. What a great idea. Never done one of these before. Thanks to Brad, Nicole, Vanessa, and Sage, and my brother for making this style of video (variety of clips, no sound, one song overtop) which made me want to try. Very hard to edit down, took a lot of time. But happy with the final product. As you are finishing editing your movies down to 5 minutes right now, the cuts can be painful to part with. But you'll be left with just the best parts, and the audience will like it more as a result. There's a place in the middle of the desert on Google maps that looks like a plane symbol... Why? The story here has something to do with design... and... Virgin American airlines has just produced a new video for the inflight safety rules, to take the most boring part of the flight to one of the more fun ones. "Hey guys, just a reminder that your 5min movies are due this Friday. What? You're going to make a Harlem Shake video from scratch instead?" Reminds me of the craziness in dorms during the stress of university finals week. On a technical note, I'm surprised how nice the video lighting was from overhead fluorescents! You probably recognize this picture from one of the most watched youtube videos of 2012. This band did a cover of Gotye's "Somebody that I Used to Know" where all 5 musicians played on the same guitar. Very creative. Here if you never saw it. Below is a newer video, of a song they wrote themself. What's crazy is that they cut up the music and then filmed it out of sequence. There's a making of video here. The final product fast forwards and rewinds the video to match the normal song. Crazy! They are impressing me with their creativity, which is what will get your video passed around on youtube and make it famous. It's not about the technical aspects or the cool special effects - the first time is mind-blowing and famous, but after that "it's been done". But creativity costs nothing, creativity can adapt to any level of technology, that's what you want to train and develop in yourself. Speaking of great creative ideas, check out these band photos! The level of photoshop needed for this is not crazy, you could do this.
As an increasingly old man, I'm so glad this has died down. And get off my lawn. Did you ever think about the implications of a YOLO philosophy? These guys did. The Lonely Island is the group that makes the digital shorts that play on Saturday Night Live as it includes a few of the members. They like making ridiculous songs and then making videos with really high production value (lighting, HD, slow motion) - there's something funny about the juxtiposition of a silly song being treated very seriously. Warning if you check out their other videos: If you've seen them on Saturday Night Live you'll know some of their stuff is not G rated. I had to send a few students this Hallowe'en to the vice-principal for dressing up as one of their videos :) And then sometimes being obviously low budget is funny (Laser Cats). Whatever people aren't expecting. A group of kids dressed as silent monks "singing" the famous Hallelujah Chorus. Good for Christmastime. If you can't see the words well, go to the link here. |
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