This video was created to promote an event that I helped run for Cal Poly Pomona's University Housing Services. The idea and concept for the event was created because our team cancelled the planned Welcome Week Spring 2024 programming, and we had to to come up with events utilizing existing resources available to the Event Lead Team. I had the idea for the video very shortly after coming up with the themeing for the event, and the video came together pretty much exactly as I envisoned it. I also did a quick photoshoot of some cereal for the print/Instagram/website poster for the event.
Unfortunately, this video was only posted on the offical housing Instagram account's story for 24 hours due to requiring an (at minimum) 3 week long process for any Instagram reels to be posted to the cpp.uhsevents account, and for the video to be created primarily by the seperate social media team who ran the account. This was really disappointing because I had had the idea for the event, had the idea for the video, and executed the idea fully within about 4 days. Since the event had to be planned on extremely short notice (less than a week), it was literally impossible to go through with the normal process to get the video posted, and I think the quality of the video really deserved an exception in that case. For some reason the social media manager didn't see eye to eye with me on this, and it wasn't able to stay on the UHS account, but at least I got to excercise the video making muscles that I hadn't flexed in a while.
This video was created to promote Cal Poly Pomona's Formula SAE team to get new members to join, and is the only thing I ever actually completed for FSAE. I was given several other projects, but I realized I really didn't care much for the competition format, and I really disliked the internship system they had in place to join the team, so I stopped trying to complete any other projects. I was supposed to make severl renders of the car, as well as try to make a 3d version of a scene from Fast and Furious including the car, but the model was terribly unoptimized, and I was in over my head for intergrating a 3D scene with footage ripped from YouTube. With about 1,500 views combined on the CPP FSAE Instagram and my own YouTube channel, This is probably my most viewed video.
None of the footage was shot by me, and I remember being really, really frustrated with the low quality of the footage for the video. I also took a lot of time to edit the audio. The original audio included UI sounds from GTA V, and not only did it really mess with the vibe of the final video, but it also really go on my nerves during editing, so I went thorugh a lot of effort to find the original song, as well as the voice lines from GTA V to essentially recreate the viral sound from scratch. This was a huge value add because the sound is much, much, much cleaner compared to the probably freebooted 3x times over version I was given to start.
While I really loved the sound editing of the engine now, I somewhat cringe at it now, but I think it's still a pretty good concept. (If I didn't still like it, it wouldn't be on here lol)
Time Spent: 6 hoursI made this video for my Eagle Scout Court Of Honor. Most of the Eagle Scouts in my Troop had a trail to Eagle Ceremony that consisted of someone reading different milestones in that Scout's career when they reached specific ranks, but I wanted to do something different.
This is essentially the first video I had an idea for, shot, and edited from scratch. It was interesting being a one man band of director, cinematographer, sound mixer, and interviewer, especially when the subject matter was literally myself. (Producers were Mom and Dad because she got me the camera and drove me places, and Dad got me the mic, stand, and interface + all the knowledge of how to do stuff). It was definitely cringeworthy to edit but I think the final product came out pretty good, especially considering it was my first time really recording on more than just a phone camera.
I should probably go back and fix the sound levels, my parents were right, the music is too loud. Maybe I'll do another interview for myself at one point, and right those wrongs.
Time Spent: 17 hours