Draw My Life

So American vlogger/short-film maker KickThePJ was tagged in 'Draw My Life'. I've spent the last few months desperately searching for inspiration for another video, and within minutes of seeing PJ's video I knew I had to do one too.

An added incentive was his call for a competition, meaning that I would gain instant viewers for my attempt among his many fans, and also the possible glory of victory!

This project came to symbolise my domination over computer technology. I basically grew up with access to a computer, and have always managed to conquer any technical issues that have arisen. But for quite a while I felt dread as I came to realise this film might just not be published. No matter how many attempts I gave the editing process (I think it took around 15 attempts, most taking a number of hours), my computer kept rejecting my footage, even though I KNEW that the footage files were not corrupted. I truly began to panic, feeling the world of technology had finally succeeded against me, but after a lot of prayer the answer finally came from my mum who simply suggested I try on a different computer with fewer files to slow the process.

So, here it is, published and uploaded (finally) onto youtube! The content is already out of date as I talk about beginning uni in future tense, whereas I have just completed my first week of it, but it took me about two weeks to overcome all the technical difficulties.

So here I present my victory once again over technology!

I used a backdrop of playing cards. This was a spur of the moment decision when I realised the camera would show space beyond my tea-dyed paper background. I thought they added a nice retro, possible-symbolic-of-life/chance touch.

To film this movie, I needed a bird's-eye perspective, which proved... challenging! Basically, I stacked a bunch of large Harry Potter, Obernewtyn and Eragon books on my desk, wrapped the strap of the camera around the pile, and rested the camera on top of my pencil case (with the help of blue-tack)... As demonstrated in this picture (minus the camera)!

EDIT: Here is an earlier trial, which is basically what it ended up looking like, but higher up.

-AlbusOwner

Disney Cards

So I decided to make a bit of a different style of blog today.

A week or so ago I shot a film of myself making some Disney-inspired cards and have now compiled it into a 3-minute video. I am merely experimenting with this format, I shall wait and see if there will be any more of this kind of thing :)

Here are some more pictures of my card-making-ness:

Princess Tiana [Princess and the Frog]:

And no the dots are NOT meant to be her face!! It was a sad moment after hours and hours of work to realise she had a funny-looking face-like face...

The Rapunzel one didn't turn out so well.... I hat a lot of issues with the hair, especially with the way everything was layered... I've actually un-glued and re-glued a lot of this card since these pictures/video haha!

Princess Rapunzel [Tangled]:

I apologise to everyone who I told off for talking in the background of my typewriter footage, but I can get rather fixated when doing creative stuff and doing it properly... the footage didn't turn out so great anyway so whatever!

Right now I am quite frustrated, after researching to make sure that Louis Armstrong's song  "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" was old enough to have no more copyright, I still got slammed on youtube for breaching copyright T-T

I could have taken the liberty of using a modern cool song which would definitely have breached copyright in hope of attracting more viewers, but no, I still get in trouble for using aged-songs that no-one alive can honestly take credit for!

One day I'll do something right, one day...

Signing out,

AlbusOwner