I have been working on a few projects this weekend, which I had hoped to had have completed in order to upload a video this weekend. Unfortunately, no, I'm still working.
The idea for the video is to basically have a colored powder fight or do cool things with colored powder over a song. A quasi-music video if you will. I was going to attempt to emulate this video:
In order to make the powder, I was going to mix rice flour, cornstarch, or talcum powder with water and food coloring, let it dry, then stick it in a coffee grinder. Then take the colored powder, and stick it in a stocking. I'm still experimenting on what materials/mix of materials work best.
The other thing I'm working on is making colored smoke for the video. I've found some pretty cool videos of demonstations of smoke canisters, which I may use as background-blockers in the video, or just as cool colored smoke.
Skip to 2:05 in order to see it being used.
Hopefully I'll have a video coming out in the next week or two wtih these cool things!
"All we are is dust in the wind
(ahem) COLORED dust in the wind"
-Zephyr
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Capture the Fall... LITERALLY
For a school video project, our class needed to individually make videos that "Captured the Fall", meaning autumn, our feelings about it, etc. However, I don't want to sit though thirty minutes of watching people's videos of pumpkins and leaves, so, I decided to make a different interpretation of this video challenge. I decided to Capture the Fall... LITERALLY. Take a look:
I used a plugin in After Effects called Twixtor, which generates frames in order to slow down video. I shot this at sunset, so we had to use a high iso, which made the quality kind of bad, sorry. We shot it with a Cannon 550D, and edited it on After Effects and Final Cut Express 4.
Another video that uses Twixtor is Mica Ho's info flow show open from last year:
P.S. I fell 32 times in order to get these shots.
"The winds blow, but in slow motion
The east has edited. Welcome."
I used a plugin in After Effects called Twixtor, which generates frames in order to slow down video. I shot this at sunset, so we had to use a high iso, which made the quality kind of bad, sorry. We shot it with a Cannon 550D, and edited it on After Effects and Final Cut Express 4.
Another video that uses Twixtor is Mica Ho's info flow show open from last year:
P.S. I fell 32 times in order to get these shots.
"The winds blow, but in slow motion
The east has edited. Welcome."
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Blair Crew Occoquan Regatta
Today, Montgomery Blair Crew had four boats race in the Head of the Occoquan Regatta (HOTO) at the Occoquan Reservoir. The team raced a Men's Varsity 4, Men's Varsity 8, and two Women's Varsity 8s.
The Men's Varsity 8, comprised mostly of first year Varsity members, did fairly well. They placed 22nd out of 26, which isn't too good, but, compared to their last season where they placed last every race save one, this race is a major improvement. (See all of the race results here).
Some reasons for this less-than-prime performance are that the best Men's Rowers were put into the Men's Varsity 4, in an attempt to create one great race lineup, and one OK race lineup. In addition the Men's Varsity 8 rowed with two freshman novice rowers, who were not as experienced nor as physically tall and big as other Varsity rowers.
Even though the Blair Men's Varsity 8 went into the race with suboptimal conditions, they managed to keep their focus and power up throughout the whole 5 kilometer or ~3.5 mile race; a problem that had plagued them in practices.
(For a the definition of rowing terms used below, see bottom)
During their post-race meeting, rowers shared what they thought went well and what they could improve on. "For a plus: we definitely kept the power up, especially during the power tens, but we should have had a smoother transition from arms to legs. But in general power was good. For a negative, our set in the boat was off, and ports were dragging their paddles on the recovery because of it, which slowed us down. So we need to have better handle heights. Also, we could have slowed the slide down and increased the speed of our drive".
The team's fall season is over, and workouts begin in December. Rowers will then start their spring season in March, which consists on the water practice and shorter 2 kilometer races.
EXTRA INFORMATION
Power 10: Ten, hard, good, 100% effort strokes to re-focus the boat and speed up.
Set: Wether the boat is leaning to port, starboard, or is balanced. (Set is off when the boat is tilted).
Handle Heights: How high or low the oar is in the rower's hands during both the drive and the recovery.
Recovery: The stage where a rower prepares to take another stroke.
Dragging: When the oar skims or skips across the top of the water on the recovery, caused by improper handle heights and bad set.
For further info about rowing technique and rowing in general, check these three videos/websites out:
Rowing 101
Concept 2
"May you have a westerly tailwind that will propel you to victory"
-Zepher"
The Men's Varsity 8, comprised mostly of first year Varsity members, did fairly well. They placed 22nd out of 26, which isn't too good, but, compared to their last season where they placed last every race save one, this race is a major improvement. (See all of the race results here).
Some reasons for this less-than-prime performance are that the best Men's Rowers were put into the Men's Varsity 4, in an attempt to create one great race lineup, and one OK race lineup. In addition the Men's Varsity 8 rowed with two freshman novice rowers, who were not as experienced nor as physically tall and big as other Varsity rowers.
Even though the Blair Men's Varsity 8 went into the race with suboptimal conditions, they managed to keep their focus and power up throughout the whole 5 kilometer or ~3.5 mile race; a problem that had plagued them in practices.
(For a the definition of rowing terms used below, see bottom)During their post-race meeting, rowers shared what they thought went well and what they could improve on. "For a plus: we definitely kept the power up, especially during the power tens, but we should have had a smoother transition from arms to legs. But in general power was good. For a negative, our set in the boat was off, and ports were dragging their paddles on the recovery because of it, which slowed us down. So we need to have better handle heights. Also, we could have slowed the slide down and increased the speed of our drive".
The team's fall season is over, and workouts begin in December. Rowers will then start their spring season in March, which consists on the water practice and shorter 2 kilometer races.
EXTRA INFORMATION
Power 10: Ten, hard, good, 100% effort strokes to re-focus the boat and speed up.
Set: Wether the boat is leaning to port, starboard, or is balanced. (Set is off when the boat is tilted).
Handle Heights: How high or low the oar is in the rower's hands during both the drive and the recovery.
Recovery: The stage where a rower prepares to take another stroke.
Dragging: When the oar skims or skips across the top of the water on the recovery, caused by improper handle heights and bad set.
For further info about rowing technique and rowing in general, check these three videos/websites out:
Rowing 101
Concept 2
"May you have a westerly tailwind that will propel you to victory"
-Zepher"
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