Thought of You

Thought of You from Ryan J Woodward on Vimeo.

  Incredible, gorgeous, beautiful, so many words cannot describe the beauty that was put into this amazing animation of thoughts of love, dancing, missing, heartache, it is just awe inspiring. A must see for motivation and inspiration. 

4th Quarter Goals

We've come as far as to interviewing Talieks mother and siblings. We've accomplished certain goals such as making a soundtrack, filming Taliek, creating the trailer, editing the film to a longer extent and working as a group to do this film together as a team! We challenged things like timing when to film on a day that everyone can go together, it was a little hard formatting the specific tracks we needed in order for the film to flow and it was hard getting Taliek to come to school earlier more often.

We need to film his mom and him maybe eating and spending quality time together. We need to be able to hold the camera for about two or more days. We'll need to be able to take a cab home because we don't want to travel Brooklyn at night.

The next step we are taking is we are going to film Taliek and his mother to have some more home footage of his daily life. We want to also film his sister and have her talk about how much she loves Taliek. After this, we will edit the film about two or three more times and we will finally be done.

Nature compared to manmade system

TO UNDERSTAND IS TO PERCEIVE PATTERNS from Jason Silva on Vimeo.

Lets see. Well the most I can say for this video is that the man speaking is comparing life and nature and how it works to the works of man and how we function almost exactly the same. It seems pretty amazing if you ask me but the guy speaks pretty fast so if you watch, try to keep up. 

The Road Forward

During the first quarter of this course to start this project we needed a team to help take photos, record videos and set up accounts. The team I ended up with is called Our Neighborhoods. This team involves Breyana, Monye, and me. What this project is about is that we are trying to find information about the Crown Heights Riots and how the Black and Jewish communities get along with each other now, considering that it's now been 22 years since the riots had happened. Also, we'd like to get information on gang related activities within Crown Heights and we are looking at Brower Park. We are currently waiting for a response from a friend of Breyana's so that we may interview her and get info. During 2nd quater though, we had been working on our trailer for the movie which will be named Our Neighborhoods.

This is the beginning of the 3rd quater and now that we've completed our trailer, it's time for us to focus on getting this interview and making a complete video. If not a complete video then at least get half of the video done by lets say March 16th. I figure that the milestone for this quater though is to complete the video with good B-roll, still photos and good interview with close to perfect quality.

The qualities that will make us successful as a team is working together to keep each other on task because although I feel that my team is too stressful to work with, I need to complete this project so that I may graduate. My team may be a pain but I'm dealing with it to the best of my abilities and keeping them on task. What I do to keep my team on task is that I stop them from reading, taking photos and using youtube while we are trying to work on this serious project, and this does result in arguments at times. My team, besides me, lives around crown heights. So that part of team cooperation is up to them. But I feel they won't do much besides hangout so it's mostly up to me to go there and get evidence and pictures. Unfortunately, I feel that I'm the only one taking this project seriously so that worries me.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TZfNWibyLoc
http://vimeo.com/27781557