A little vlog that i put together to thank croatia for her delicious cupcakes. I was hoping that this would encourage her to make me more cupcakes. I think it worked! I think i might go and make these just to make them so that i can have some. I should have put music to the vid but i was too lazy.
It's been a long time since I've made a video! And judging from the length of time for my video to finish uploading onto vimeo, I'd have to say that lots of people these days are hopping on the video-making band wagon. Myself included of course. I think that snowboarding videos are the most fun and easy to make just because of the amount of action clips that you end up getting. I'd say I have about 80% of snowboarding footage that's on the cutting room floor. Right before the trip, I purchased this small panasonic lumix that records video in 720p hd. Since my crappy arse lappy doesn't play hd, I had to use big poppa's mac and therefore used imovie to make my video. Oh my gawd. I absolutely detest imovie. It's completely not user friendly and lacks basic options that movie maker had. There are some great things that it does offer but then the end product includes all kinds of audio glitches. I was annoyed to say the least but eventually was able to shrug it off. Freaking apple. When I uploaded my videos onto big poppa's computer, it took me like thirty minutes to locate where they had been stored! Yes. I am that dumb sometimes. Haha. I usually like to make videos with subjects who are down for whatever. I must say that this time, I got a lot of irritated looks and comments that I was being a demanding director. I felt bad sometimes but you know, I'm never afraid of asking. Anyways, here's my video and I hope y'all like it!
Jealousy. It's a dangerous emotion that I hate. I had a best guy friend once who was married to this person who could not control her jealousy. It made her crazy. She developed issues far beyond my acceptance. We're not friends anymore. So since then, I refused to allow myself to feel jealous. You let it in and it just consumes you. Like cholesterol. The bad kind. I was pretty successful until now. I went to a wedding recently where the bride and groom surprised all of their guests with this frackin' AMAZING video. It was so good that it was all I could talk and think about for a week. I was just completely envious that I did not come up with it first! Actually, I like to think that I had something to do with them coming up with the idea since they were in the NYC video that I made. I hate them. When the bride called me three days after the wedding to see what I thought, I was like, uh ... hello? ... I hate you. See what jealousy does? Timothy Tse did such a good job. I looked at some of his other work and I really like his video editing skills. The photography however not so much. I would mos def think about hiring them as a videographer for wedddings and such. Queenie and Gau, y'all deserve an Oscar! Check out their awesome acting skills. They're such a hoot!
Edit: So the video won't show. Just click on box and a new window should pop up with the video. Do it. It's worth the watch.
Tran's Wedding Concept Film - MV from Timothy Tse @ T2 Production on Vimeo.
I finally finished my video for the Atlanta trip. That whole video process thing is normally the first thing I jump on when I get back but it's been kinda crazy with back to back trips and what not. I make good use of my weekends that's for sure. This video is prolly my least fave by far. I don't think I did as good of a job as for my previous ones. I'm posting it even though I feel I can work on it a bit more. But whatevs. I still like it none-the-less cos it gives me a summary of all the things that took place that weekend. The song I used is one of my fave songs this year. Sometime Around Midnight by The Airborne Toxic Event, a group that big poppa intro'd me to. My favo song of the year is still hands down Greg Laswell's, Comes and Goes. Anyways, enjoy the vid!
Finally! The much anticipated video from my snowboard trip. Maybe only for me and the snowboard crew. Hah! I never understood the reason for people wanting to record anything. I mean. It's boring to go and re-watch clips of unedited stuff. I thought it was dumb and pointless until I was inspired by some amateur movie making by some bloggers on my blogroll. They're so much fun! In the span of the average time of a song, you get to create a summary of your trip or experiences. It's prolly the thing that I'm most excited about when I travel now. I want to capture as much as I can to get some great usable footage. The thing about it though is that it takes a LOT of time to get everything together from beginning to end. But since I enjoy it enough, I don't see it as an obstacle. I go into my trips with several pre-meditated sequences that I hope to accomplish. One thing is for sure, I despise my HD camcorder. It's useless! Why?!? Cos ya need to buy software in order to convert it from MTS files to something more workable like MPEG. It's trash to me now. Luckily, my wails of distraught sent big poppa over the edge and he spent night and day searching for software I didn't have to pay for. He said it was all for me. But we all know he wants a video as much as I do. Seriously, this was one fun arse trip! The company was awesome and everyone pulled their own weight. I want to extend an extra thanks to Miss Fabulous and Mister Rice Boy (I'm not referring to an azn guy btw) for setting up this whole trip and taking the time out to give is a little lesson. I love being around people who are eager to go along with my cooky ideas. Kudos to the SB crew forreals! So here's a helpful tip. If you wanna be featured in my videos more often, it wouldn't hurt to suck up to the director!
The bf and I just returned from a short trip to Puerto Vallarta for our friend's wedding. I was feeling the video recording inspiration and had the bf tape while I shoot. The first thing I did when I got home was upload all the videos and began thoroughly viewing all the footage from the trip. There was some editing, lots of splicing and no shortage of frustration being that I'm no computer genius. Codec this. Decompress that. Once I started with creating my own homemade movie, it took over my life. I remember sitting in one spot for at least five hours straight. I needed to pee but I couldn't bring myself to pause from my creation. The dogs were staring at me, pleading for me to go and let them out because they also needed to go. I planned on surprising the bf with the finished product but halfway through, I couldn't keep my excitement for the video from oozing out and showed him the first part. Of course, he then tried to take over as director so I had to use my power of veto. I already knew what song I wanted to use prior to going on the trip and I kept visualizing the images and music together. And so I introduce to you, my very first travel movie vlog or whatever else it's supposed to be called.
