Thursday 18 September 2014

Collection of Short Videos: A Reel of Progress

Film making has become another one of my hobbies, one that has been practiced enough to make a list. Here are the films that I have been involved in, presented to you in chronological order, with some extra details and explanations.

Number One: Hidden Truth  

It all started at the end of 2012, for the George Baptist Church "Oscars".
The objective- get out, grab any camera, throw your clips together and call it a prodution.
The result- a formal evening, fine dining, and a significant reel of films produced by the Youth of GBC.

Titled "Hidden Truth", this adventure film goes against the belief of biological evolution, and in return it directs towards Creation.This is our all-out attempt, 24 minutes, with limited experience.





Number Two: Mountain Biking in Harkerville Forest

Not so serious- some mountainbiking in Harkerville, Knysna, with some friends. It was rad fun, especially putting our home built mounts for standard point-and-shoot cameras to the test. This was filmed a couple of days after Hidden Truth. Edited by my buddy, Joubert.



 Number Three: Poker Fight!

This was the product of a day's planning and filming with Mr. Hendrifyer(Check out his Youtube channel!) his brothers and my sister. Hendri inspired a significant amount of my filming efforts. This was made for the sake of collaborating, and with Hendri's camera and editing skills, it made quite a decent clip!




Number Four: Oyster Bay, NY

An interesting car show, fiddling with a new camera, and carting* a boat around with my Grandpa on an outing to Oyster Bay. Watch the ending- it will make your day!





Number Five: Longboard Jumping for Dummies

My first video back in Africa with my newly acquired Sony Action Camera! The scene happened to be the perfect setup for some longboarding antics. No, I'm not sure who's trampoline that was...



Number Six: Skilled Video Editors Can Make Random Footage Look Good... 

This was literally an afternoon of fooling around and learning how to do some skateboard slides. However, upon sharing my raw video clips with MrHendrifyer, he surprised me with a shweet little edit the following day.



The Great Number
SEVEN:
Dude, Who has Taken my Pump?!

I cannot believe it has nearly been a year since we made this film. It was the most planning intense and fun creation by far! All my camera mounts and rigs I made myself, and the boards were also a product of the construction process in my previous post. 
This mini movie is basically an action sports compilation with a plot... Yes, a plot, but you are welcome to your own interpretation of the story line, so you might want to watch it twice. A slightly shortened edition was entered into the Wavescape Shortcuts video competition, and the full edition was entered into the 2013 GBC Fountain of Youth Second Annual Oscars(Overall Winner).




Plus: The Top 10 Crashes, Bails, and Fails

The name says it all, but if you are alert you may notice that I experienced some counting problems while I was editing this one... Enjoy! 





All these little films happened over the period of one year. I'm pleasantly surprised how things have changed after taking the first video into comparison. On the other hand, it is rather disturbing that I have not produced any movies this year!

I have 50 Gigabytes of mountain-biking and 40 Gigabytes of kiteboarding footage to be processed so the production will continue!

Action! "Wait, wait, Iz it on?"