Hello, my name is Frederick Lee, but hopefully, you knew that already. My pronouns are He Him His and I am an aspiring video production student who dreams to make it far in life. Pretty generic am I right? This is who I am... I am not about to throw it out the window to try and become someone else because that's not who I want to be in the future. How I identify myself as is your casual skater boy who has a deep interest in riding skateboards. The adrenaline of making short corners weaving through cars it just feels exhilarating. I get that it is dangerous and maybe one day I might end up in the hospital... But it is a chance I have to take for my definition of fun. It was a lonely road for me at a point where I had no friends who shared the same interest as me until one day I roomed with one of my suitemates. So I just wanted to share my experience of skateboarding through a video and hope that everyone will appreciate the lifestyle of a skater. The idea of the video came in mind when I watched a movie called "Rock Dogs" which is basically an aspiring musician who wanted to make it big and show everyone around the world his talent. The music, "Glorious" by Adam Friedman flowed so well that I had to create a similar theme to this movie. I just combined my post-production abilities with my skating abilities and boy did I have fun. This class had many readings and one of the main themes of this course is self-identity. One of the readings gave me the courage to express how I am as an individual and which is why creating this project is something just more than creating a video. It's creating who I am. So I thank the professors on giving me such an opportunity, I am very grateful.
The process: There were so many conflicts on creating this film... Let me tell you... Firstly, grabbing everyone for the film and trying to work around with their schedules. This was the most frustrating problem I went through since everyone was busy with their finals and sometimes even the weather just destroyed one of my filming days. So in the end, I ended up with just my main character and one other side character. It was supposed to be a group of skaters who banded together and rode out to the music. I have the shots in my head but some of them were not what I anticipated and nothing is more frustrating than that. But other than that, editing in post-production was not a problem, just the actual filming was a bit of a drag. It was not all that bad. there were shots that I was not even thinking but it just looked nice and it fits well with the music that it just ended up being in the video. Honestly, if the pros and cons balance each other out when it comes to creating a film.
Here is the link to the video: https://youtu.be/yfCo4EQ_pDI It has been a blast participating in this class. Hope to see everyone again one day.
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