Life as a Filmmaker: February 2012

Friday, February 24, 2012

NEW VIDEO: Particular Sparkler Name (Motion Sketch)

With the help of Nick Campbell, I was able to create this small animation of my name using Trapcode Particular and something new that I learned called Motion Sketch within After Effects.

Music: "Have My Love (Instrumental)" by gagawhore is licensed under a Creative Commons License. http://soundcloud.com/gagawhore/7-11-final-version

Saturday, February 18, 2012

NEW VIDEO: Lumiére Brothers Style 46-Second Film Project

In 1895, the Lumiére Brothers patented the Cinematographe -- a moving picture camera, developer and projector, all in one device. The brothers filmed 46 second movies with the camera and projected the films for audiences around the world. This was a video recreating the style of films they made within the 46 second timespan and was also good old vintage film look test for me within After Effects.

Video filmed, created and directed by: Ryan Rakowski and Taylor Robida.
Casting by: Taylor Robida
Edited by: Ryan Rakowski.

Music: Dark Hallway by Kevin MacLeod @ incompetech

Special thanks to (in order of appearance):
Lucas Mosher, Pooja Suresh, Ethan Christenson, Ryan Liddane, Ryan St. John, Kayla Kline and Derrek Shueneman.

To my Grandpa that reads my blog: "The small videos that appear in the player at the end of each video I post on here are not always mine. They are suggested videos."

NEW VIDEO: Watch Me Fall- Please Promise

Today I'm bringing you a video that I completely forgot that I did back in 2011. I even forgot to include this with the 2011 demo reel. This video was recorded and made back in October featuring the musical talent of Please Promise at their concert where they debut their album called Give and Take.

AJ Pruis- guitar and lead vocals
Jeremy Pruis- bass guitar and vocals
Josh Pruis- drums

Please Promise's Lynx:
Website: http://www.pleasepromise.net/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/PleasePromise
Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/pleasepromise
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/pleasepromise
Feedburner: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PleasePromise

NEW VIDEO EVERY FRIDAY AND OR SATURDAY!

Sunday, February 5, 2012

NEW VIDEO: DNA STRAND

Description:

The life of a new aspiring filmmaker named Ryan Rakowski as he goes through the many challenges in college and in life. Take a seat because video updates will appear on here first than anywhere else.

New video every Friday-Saturday!

My Lynx:

Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAtomicBlog

http://www.youtube.com/user/AtomicFlame53

Vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/ryanrakowski

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/#!/RyanRakowski_

Online Resume:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ryan-rakowski/2b/929/a68

To find a specific word or name, press Ctrl+F then type your word and search.

Bio:

"Filmmaking is my passion, without film and video I would not be where I am today. I have spent the past four years recording, editing and publishing videos for local communities. I've edited and recorded weddings, high school and college sports games and made highlight DVDs for the coaches and players. I have made many special effects videos containing light saber effects, fire effects, explosions, muzzle flashes, and various other special effects and animations that can be seen on Youtube. I’m highly proficient with the Adobe Suite products but I am also learning 3DMax and NUKE in hope to soon incorporate 3d effects into my videos.

During high school I took over seven classes on Graphic Design which I apply many aspects to film. I have a great deal of knowledge about what looks appealing to the eye. I was awarded the departmental award for graphic arts among my graduating class when my senior year ended. I worked on the yearbook staff for my high school as the photography editor and brought new ideas to better create a yearbook and make it more visually satisfying. One of which was the idea of the "page number people." Students stood in front of a green screen and made poses with a small white board in front of them. I keyed out the green screen and added numbers to the white boards and each page of the yearbook had a student that represented a page number on the yearbook. In 2010, I created a t-shirt design for the Community for the Cure football game in Otsego, Michigan and over $9,000 was raised by my shirts for Cancer Research.

I am currently attending Grand Valley State University studying film and video. In 2011, I worked for Grand Valley’s newspaper recording video for their online website. The number one thing I love when I make my videos is watching the reactions I recieve from people that watch my videos. I strive every day to become more professional so I can one day fulfill my dream of having my name on the big screen. "

-Ryan Rakowski