Michael Chang – Representing Others

Representing others – shoeshttps://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mchang3/art%20250/shoessss%20mike.mov?uniq=-zbj6btover thanksgiving break i was able to capture the shoehead phenomena at my high school. i was not able to use my actual voice when me and my friend previously interviewed students at my high school. i dubbed my voice afterwards and the my voice does not sound as ambient and loud when recorded on a mac computer mic than the students i interviewed. i was able to add some funny comments though too bad i didn’t do it when we interviewed the students live. this video toook a loong time to do because of the re-recording of my voice. i wish i had added some more shots of shoes or played on the act of someone stepping on someone’s shoes more.

Michael Chang – Visual argument with labor union

Visual argument with labor union  https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mchang3/art%20250/Visual%20Argument%20Contracts%201.mov?uniq=nfb7id   This was one of the tougher videos because it was 5 min long. i spent a total of about 10 hrs working on this project no including filming. the interviews i did in one take. and finished filming everything the day the video camera was due. soo i didn’t get to fix some things by getting more video footage during the editing process. i had a hard time finding the three pictures that i did but i found them on the daily illini webpage and google. i realized later after the interviews that i shouldn’t have said uh huh and agreed with the interviewee WHILE they were talking as a i realized later how hard impossible it was to edit two people talking simultaneously on imovie.  i also wished my questions were more clearer

Michael Chang – Representing Myself

Representing myself 1 min https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mchang3/art%20250/Representing%20myself%20working%20out.mov?uniq=nfb7i7in this video i tried to show myself working out. the is a representation of what i like to do in my spare time. the hard part was finding someone who was willing to video tape a whole workout session. i decided to speed things up in the video so it wouldn’t be boring watching me do the same routine over and over. 

Representing Others/Visual Argument: Salt & Light

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/tlee22/www/writingwithvideo/Interview%20Salt%20%26%20Light%20QT.mov

This is probably the most difficult project for me. Initially, I interviewed Nathan and due to using a condenser microphone and a weird microphone setting on the camera, I ended up having 45 minutes of footage with no audio. Obviously, since this was an interview, that was basically a huge waste of footage and I had to do the interview again. This was very disappointing because I felt that the interview the first time around went extremely well and I was happy with what I had. Unfortunately, the second time around did not go as well as the first time. It was a little bit more rushed and the follow-up questions were probably not as good. It was difficult to emulate what I had the first time around. I was able to utilize some of the footage from the first time around and just put different audio in the background. I felt restricted in what I had because the footage I had was limited. I did what I could with what I had and felt if I had more time and more footage, it would have been better. I hope the content and the message of the video speaks louder than the actual technical aspects of the video. Although it did not turn out as well as I would have liked, I am happy with what it turned out to be.

Personal – Brian Liu

Premise:

Record myself playing guitar.

Actuality:

It was difficult to get the correct audio and adequate lighting each time I played. The video was recorded on three separate occasions. Though I had recorded multiple monologues, they did not fit with the overall feeling of the piece, but is included below. Overall, I don’t think the monologue was necessary to explain the video.

Monologue mp3 Link soon.

“People always think they have you figured out. They size you up and mentally reason how they would take you, or decide in passing judgment how you scale upon the normality meter – apparently I score remarkably low on this test. While it may be fruitless to sort out every assessment amiss, I by no means am as emotionless as some might claim – I merely keep my socially-unacceptable emoness to strange hours in the night.

So this is my secret spot – I know, I know, it’s a not-so-secret, but after the love-drunk couples have slinked off, it’s actually surprisingly serene, at 3 or 4 in the morning that is. What do I do? I just think and play, but it pretty much keeps me sane in some regards.”

Storyboard

Making Beer

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Visual Rhythm

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