Life as a Filmmaker: May 2012

Monday, May 7, 2012

NEW WEBSITE

We're moving to a new website host so we can obtain the URL RyanRakowski.com. We don't have it yet but in time it will be our domain so from here on out go to:

http://ryanrakowski.wordpress.com

Wordpress is a little bit more professional and looks more like a professional website than a blog. Go to that website, favorite it, bookmark it because this blogger site about life as a filmmaker is going to be shutting down soon.

-Ryan Rakowski

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

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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