Feeling Ashamed/Sepiatone Addiction.

It's been about a month since I made a video for my own personal enjoyment. What am I doing? Work videos are boring me to death doing the same thing over and over again, it becomes repetitious. It also doesn't help that school has been keeping me busy either and whats worse is the fact that I'm going to college to learn about film production, I should be happy but no I'm doing stupid pre-requisites. Ughhhh... So boring.. Like a friend of mine once said, "Gen eds are bullsh*t." This is a message to all high school students. Take as many advanced placement classes that you can in high school. It may kill you but you'll be so happy in the end. I'm sorry but I'm going to complain about these classes until I'm done with them because this is driving me insane.

I mean I want to do something amazing. I want to make something so amazing video and blow half of these college students' brains out of the ballpark with my abilities. One drive that I had in high school to make videos was to impress my friends and their friends and soon hope that my videos would become known and people in high school would walk the halls and be like, "hey nice video to me." There's too many people in college, I almost never encounter the same people more than once in a week if they aren't roommates or are in one of my classes. I know I need a good environment to get my videos wide spread but there are just too many people that don't have ties to unlike high school in order to make my videos known yet.

I also want to express my fascination towards sepiatone. Sepiatone is a dark-brown-grey color. Its commonly used in photography and resembles an old photo and or film look. I'll post a small picture below on what it is in case you can't or don't understand it. I've gone through a few pictures of mine and added some sepiatone color grading on them. It's just fascinating me a lot I can't explain it. The next drama-related video I make will more than likely be all sepiatone.

Things that a Filmmaker is thankful for.

When November comes to a close we often look back at what we're thankful for when Thanksgiving comes. I'm thankful for:

1. My camera. Without my camera I wouldn't be able to record anything, I wouldn't have any motive, wouldn't have anything to edit and I wouldn't have been able to film videos for work or be able to have memories.

2. Friends and Family, honestly I would not be where I'm at if I didn't have the support that I do now. My friends and family mean everything to me and to have their support will only make me stronger both as an artist and as a person as I grow older.

3. My computer/laptop. As my Dad says, "You can only be as good as your equipment allows you to be." My computer can do anything and all the programs I need to successfully edit video run flawlessly. I can do virtually anything. Look at a previous post to look at my amazing computer specs.

4. Youtube and other influences, I'm thankful that Youtube existed. Without youtube I wouldn't have been interested in making videos and I would have never been influenced to start making videos. Mysteryguitarman, FreddieW, CorridorDigital, MikeDiva, Destorm, PatrickBolvin, Matthias Muller, Iggy35, KermitCasson aka Drew Casson, Andyax, RyanWieber, and Videocopilot. I would not be where I'm at if I was never influenced to make videos so thanks to all the above for making such amazing videos.

5. God, Thank you Lord for looking out for me in college, protecting me and guiding me into the person that I am today. Without you I would be nothing.

10 Reasons Why You Should Watch Heroes

Its been a while since I made a decent blog post. I would like to dedicate this post to my all-time favorite drama TV show, Heroes, and I will give you ten reasons to watch it.

#1: Super Powers and Super Heroes: Honestly the greatest part of this show is that there are superheroes. Each main character either has a superpower, is fighting against a superhero or is a normal human trying to help a superhero. Each superpower looks great with the visual effects and cannot be passed up.

2: Music and Sound Design: Top notch music and sounds that send chills down your spine when events occur is always a plus. The sound design is brilliant. Each super power has its own unique sound effect which is pleasant to the ears.

3. Use of Characters: One thing that separates this show from all the other shows out there is the use of characters. Each character in the show is connected and don't know it until they all meet and work together to stop the threat. Why is this unique? This style of storytelling allows you to understand each character as an individual and value their own specific role in the story. You'll gain an added shock value when plot events happen between characters and you'll learn to like all the characters more.

4. Hayden Panettiere, Clare Bennet: Not going to lie but Hayden Panettiere is hot. She is one excellent actor and her role in the story is one of the most ironic. She's a beautiful girl that injures her body. Why does she do this? She has the ability to regenerate. You'll get a feeling of satisfaction when you watch her bones and other body parts break and heal back to perfect condition. It's creepy in a way but entertaining.

5. SYLAR: One of the best villains ever to be published on television is on Heroes. Played by the role of Zachary Quinto, known as Spock from Star Trek, Sylar is one character that you'll want to watch again and again as he kills and helps other heroes with his unique diabolical ways. You'll never forget his quotes and will be wanted to see more of him as the show progresses.

6. Nostalgic Nerdgasism: When you watch this show you will constantly see references from Marvel comics, DC comics and you will feel a sense of happiness for that inner nerd inside you.

7. Small Comedic Value: There are two Japanese characters. Both are really funny and seeing them adapt in the american world can pull some laughs out of some people.

8. Awesome Intro: The intro is sweet, nuff said.

9. Amazing Art: You'll see loads of sweet art within this show, mainly the first season. Painters and art lovers may like some of the works and the actor who plays the role as the artist as he paints the future.

10. Feels like your watching a televison show within a comic book: As you watch the show, all the text is comic text from the marvel comics. You constantly feel like your inside a super hero comic book and as each episode finishes you'll be begging to watch another.

Flaws: During the second season, Heroes was unfortunately hit hard by the writers strike. Each season after the first was not as great as the first but are still decent. Here's how I rank each season:

Season 1: 10
Season 2: 4
Season 3: 7.5
Season 4: 6

If you manage to get passed the second season you'll be fine for the 3rd and 4th seasons.

This show is fantastic and I wish that you'll consider renting it or watching it online in your spare time now that you have some reasons to watch it.

Script Writing Lecture

On November 6th, 2011, I attended a script writing lecture for personal growth and gain. I now know the proper formatting of a film script. What strikes me is that this 2-hour lecture was free. The only thing that I learned so far in my freshman year that was valuable towards my major and future career was free! I can't believe pre-recs are still needed in order to get a major, classes that do nothing towards my career and cost money.

To those of you who don't know me, I was accepted at the Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago for Digital Filmmaking and Video Production. I decided not to attend that school and to attend GVSU was for money reasons. The school in Chicago costed around 3 times the amount that GVSU's tuition costed. I was given an opportunity for a chance at a half-tuition scholarship towards the institute but I didn't get the award. After attending this script writing lecture I know now that one of the reasons why I didn't get the award was because of the script I sent in. It had improper formatting. Do I still think I would have gotten the award if I had proper formatting? Not sure but my script's format was definitely one issue that I look back on that I wished I could have changed for a better chance at a education geared towards a career and not like the situation I'm in now.

To anyone wondering the script writing program that I use is "Adobe Story." Its currently in a beta version right now but it gets the job done.

Why don't you use Microsoft Word to write scripts? Well the nice thing about Adobe Story is that the formatting and spacing is set perfectly for film and television. Also if you ever question a formatting mistake about your script you can refer to its reference which is something that Word doesn't have.

Attending this lecture has now changed my way of doing things. Will the videos be better? Not quite but the approach towards making videos has become more professional and that's one thing that I strive to do whenever I make videos, to be more professional.

The Best Day EVER!

I'm literally experiencing one of the best days ever and I want you all to be a part of it. My day started off seeing that I had over 200,000 total combined views on all my videos. The milestone was hit and that set the tone in motion.

I woke up and went to my philosophy class. On Friday I overslept and missed the test review for that class, I took the test on Monday and wasn't exactly sure how I did and I got my test back today and I got a 97% on my super hard test. The professor in that class said, "Because more than half the class received A's on the test, I have donuts for everyone." So I got a good grade and a donut to start my morning off, how could it get any better?

Because I'm in a Psychology class, part of the requirements of passing the class is that the students participate in 4 credits worth of scientific studies so we can get an insight of how research is done. I signed up for a 3-hour long study for 2 credits. I actually had to skip my chemistry class in order to be in the study. I arrived for the study and sat down at the computers that they had for me and 4 other participants. The computers malfunctioned and the researcher said, "because you guys showed up for the study I'm not going to make you stay the whole time so I'm going to give you the credits and you can leave." HELL YES! I was able to get 2 of my 4 credits and I didn't have to do anything!

I figured, I better go to my chemistry class now that I have time. I showed up for that class and got my test back and I got a B! The professor then said, "Our activities today involve re-freshening up a little bit, go outside and take a walk." So I was there for about ten minutes and left to enjoy the rest of my day.

Thanks again everyone for watching my videos and helping me reach over 200,000 views and I hope your day is as good as mine if not better. I've included the best day ever song just to experience how happy I am. See you all later.

Over 200K Total Views and Updated Blog Description

I recently updated the blog description with links to my channels on youtube, vimeo and to my online resume. I am also finishing up my 2011 demo reel so expect to see that around December. I would also like to celebrate that today we've reached a total of over 200,000 combined video views on all the videos that are on youtube, vimeo and facebook. Thanks to everyone that watched my videos!