48 Hour Film Challenge

One highly admired Youtube channel I subscribe to is Finalcutking.  Zach King just recently hosted a 48 hour film challenge to all of his followers on Youtube.  I thought this would be pretty exciting to do since I like this kind of stuff!  I got in contact with my buddy Chris to try and come up with some ideas for our video.  How the contest worked was at a certain time an e-mail would be sent out to all people registered for the 48 hour film challenge that included 3 items in 3 different categories.  As filmmakers we were to choose 1 item from each category and include that in our film so they would know that we didn't start our filming before or just upload an old video.  Well the moment we got the e-mail we started trying to come up with ideas for our film.  Truth be told, we were chalk out of good ideas.  We knew we were running out of time so we decided to make a video of us trying to come up with something to film for the 48 hour film festival.  The more we started talking the more crazy ideas that came to our heads.  As you will see in our film there is a kind of twisted humor to it but that was all we were coming up with that night.  Our first initial idea was much worse and we had to tone it down.  Well, without further ado, here is the film.



After we posted this to Youtube we got some questions raised.  How did you make the little girl cry?  Why was she crying?  This wasn't real was it?  And other such funny questions.  First off, this is a film and pretty much nothing in films really ever happen the way they are portrayed.  I guess for those that don't know the film-making process they might think that all that crying was happening.  Truth be told, we had to search for some good audio sounds that we could copy and arrange so it sounded like she was continually crying.  The funny thing is Peyton (the little girl crying) was only used for the shots where you actually see her.  Everything else you hear from her, she was not even in the room and no where near where Chris was when he raised his hand and said "Shut up!"  Secondly, Peyton was sleeping prior to us filming her.  When we woke her up and had her put on her pink jacket she started crying because she was tired and it was so late.  The bean-bag she landed on is the softest thing I have ever felt, so when she landed it was very soft for her.  Finally, I wished we had spent more time coming up with ideas but according to the resources we had we didn't have much to work with.  It was just a short little movie to shock people.  I find humor in shocking/unexpected things.  Well, I hope you liked it and this explanation of how this movie was shot.  Let me know what you think in the comments section below!

The Brawl

It is always a challenge trying to edit something under a deadline.  I had filmed this video with a buddy of mine a couple weeks ago.  It is really easy to get a rough edit done.  However when you lose momentum on a project it is hard to get back going again unless you have a deadline.  Today was the last day to submit a film for the film festival so last night I stayed up until 4:30 am trying to do some finishing touches on my video.  It was way more intensive than I had originally planned.  There were some shots where I had to mask out a VFX for each and every frame, not once but twice because of multiple layers and effects.  It's funny, every time you finish a project and render it, you will always find some flaw that you thought you had fixed but it somehow got reverted back to its old way of playing.  The finished project on youtube is still missing a few audio elements and I will go back and fix it when I have time.  I have already submitted this video for the film festival.  Let's just hope it doesn't get rejected like my last one!  Well, please enjoy the latest MyJimmyRig creation!



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EvasioN

The other day my home teacher texted me saying, "Hey man, I really want to make a movie."  I was like, sweet!!  Someone else wants to help make movies with me!  So we got together and started brainstorming ideas.  It was kind of a crummy day and he was watching his kids.  As we were talking his wife got home early and then we just decided to film something just for fun and this is what we came up with.



We then decided to get together another time to work on some other ideas that we had.  I love having a friend to do stuff with.  Danielle is great and all but she doesn't really like being shown on camera, so that doesn't help.  We are currently working on another film so stay posted for that one.  This film was shot on Chris's camera and edited on my system.  If you have any questions or comments just leave them below!

Youtube Stardom

So today I was thinking to myself, "Why am I doing videos?"  It's always been something I've loved to do but I was trying to clearly define what it was I am trying to accomplish with making videos.  I don't exactly want to be a movie director or an actor for my career so what is it that I want my videos to do?  Then it hit me.  I spend a lot of time on youtube researching tons of VFX to try and get ideas of cool things that I'd like to try.  I then realized, "This is it!  This is what I want to do."  I want to make videos every week to post on youtube and get my name out there.  I would love to be the next Freddie Wong or Julian Smith on youtube.  I find myself now thinking of cool FX to do for my videos as I ride my bike to school.  I think the thing that holds most people back is lack of tools and drive to actually get out there and do it.  I watch videos online and sometimes think to myself, "I can do better than them."  However, if I'm always hiding behind my computer and not getting behind the camera and actually filming something then I must be a hypocrite.  So, from now on, I will be making a video for my youtube channel (which you can go to right now by clicking here) every week for as long as I am able.

So fellow bloggers, what do you want to see?  Please leave your comments below and I will collaborate with you on some of your awesome ideas!  I guess every journey has its first step.  Here I am taking mine onto youtube stardom!

Burrito Grande

This past weekend I went back home to Utah.  It was a grand ole time with the parents and siblings.  I took the liberty to show them the latest pieces of work I have been fiddling around with.  My family has been making short videos ever since I was 8 years old.  It's been a passion of my older brother and he has always pulled me into his projects to help him.  If you want to check out his website you can do so by clicking here.  He has done amazing things by doing commercials for Spring Mobile and music videos for several famous people.  He is making a career out of it while I am doing small videos as sort of a hobby.

My dad and I got to talking about doing another visual effects practice video and we got the motivation to try and blow up my dad's car!  My dad has always been an awesome dad supporting us in whatever endeavor we've wanted to try.  Some dads won't even let their kids touch the family camcorder while my dad on the other hand encouraged us to use the family camcorder and be creative.  It really has spurned into a great family bonding experience.  My dad has a cool website all about being a dad.  You should go to it.  Click this.  Anyways, we took some time on Saturday evening to film this little scene.

My dad was a super good sport for letting me do this.  It was a good bonding time with my dad and I look forward to doing many more videos with him.  He has been writing a book about the lost dutchman mine in the superstition mountains in Arizona for several years now.  I think it would be cool to collaborate with him and make it into a movie or turn it into webisodes.

I shot this scene with my JVC Everio and edited it with Sony Vegas Pro 10.  If you have any questions about the special effects in this don't hesitate to comment below!

The Break Up

So the other day I just acquired the Action Essentials Pack 2 and saw some of the cool and amazing
things that I might be able to do with this sweet footage.  I first did a test video with just the front windshield of
my car to see if it could look like it got shot by a gun.  If you want to check it out, watch this practice footage
here.  However, I somehow convinced my wife to help me out with another practice video to test out more
visual effects. By no means is this Hollywood quality but it's what I can do in a day and a half.  So without
further ado here is "The Break Up".

As you can see I still have a ways to go before I am Steven Spielberg but it's a start.  I shot this on a JVC 

Everio and edited with Sony Vegas Pro 10.  If you have any questions leave a comment below!