Introduction: As part of Visual Story at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center we created a 3-4 minute video with a given main character and conflict. We created For Rent, choosing a mysterious stranger and don’t touch anything.
Time: 48 hours | Roles: Director – Writer – Producer | Team Size: 5
My Contributions:
Introduction: The Chain was our final music video coursework assignment for Visual Story at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center. Our film won a Bronze Telly Award in the student category.
Award: Bronze Telly Award for Student Category
Our final video was a highly streamlined effort. We first conceptualized an idea based on Ingrid Michaelson’s song The Chain. Our artist then created storyboards, and using those boards we created a rough ‘film storyboard’ with music.
Next we faced location scouting, in this regard the issue we encountered was not having a pure white background as per our storyboard. We adapted to this by finding a suitable ‘black out room’ to provide an all black background. Meanwhile we made a shot list from the rough storyboard that we had created.
With a shotlist, and locations to shoot we purchased necessary props, and went about filming on thanks giving.
As usual on set we changed the storyboard in various ways such as:
After fifteen hours of filming, several hours of editing, the film was complete. It was well received by our peers and professors.
Finally we submitted The Chain to the student category of the Telly Awards.
Introduction: Missed Connection is our virtual reality team coursework assignment for Visual Story at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center.
A special thanks to the folks over at Carnegie Library for letting us film there + being awesome!
Time: 1 Week | Team Size: 5 | Role: Producer – Director
My Contributions: I was involved in various aspects of the project, primarily:
Learning from our last assignment we went into this project prepared to plan properly. We began with an idea of a love story in the library. Following this we created a Lego storyboard, and script.
We then scouted libraries around Pittsburgh, ultimately finding The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
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Visual Story at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center not only requires one to understand the visual components (composition, space) but to also practice utilizing them when creating videos in a team environment. For our first team assignment we retro-fit a given scene from the South Korean movie 3-Iron.
https://youtu.be/lYmevcp-HqY
To complete this assignment we worked using a near standard video production pipeline. First we decomposed the scene into a script, and storyboard.
Meanwhile we found a suitable location, and with the locations floor plan created an overhead floor plan of our shots.
As part of our Visual Story course at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center we were split into a number of semester long teams. Our first task was to come up with a name for our studio, and then to create a short animated studio logo.
In considering our studio name we brainstormed a number of ideas:
We settled on Pumpkin Productions for two reasons:
At this point our team started on concept designs. With our first concept we had two considerations. Firstly was that of color, which given the subject matter was a pumpkin, we felt orange would be appropriate. Secondly was that of shape, which we based off how a pumpkin looks like.
