Film and Motion

Most of the videos displayed here were made in my film production classes at Bradley. Although I had made several videos for other multimedia classes prior to my actual film production classes, I didn't really become all that interested in film production until Fall of 2007 when I took Multimedia Video Production. Several of the more recent videos were ones I worked on at my internship at IONA Group in Morton, IL, or ones that were done on my own. I've recently started learning and working with Adobe After Effects to make animations and motion graphics.

If you are interested in having me shoot and/or edit a video or film of any kind for you, please let me know by emailing me at amandaATagirlcalleduntouchable.com (be sure to replace AT with @) and I will get back to you within three days.

Skills

Operating Camera Equipment

Lighting Equipment

Some Sound Equipment

Final Cut Pro

Video Editing

Sound Editing

Color Correction

iDVD

DVD Studio Pro

GarageBand (sound editing)

Shot Lists

Shot Schedules

Storyboarding

Portfolio

July 2008 // Birdhouse "The Beginning" Skate Trailer

The footage used in this piece was from Birdhouse Skateboard's video contest back in May. The contest was to make a promotional trailer for their skate video entitled "The Beginning". The red graphic at the beginning and end was made by Birdhouse.

June 2008 // Marketpoint Resource

This is a promotional video for Pioneer's Marketpoint Resource that I made at my internship at IONA Group in Morton, IL. I did the editing (along with one other person), color correction, script preparation, shot list, shot order, and helped with shooting.

December 2007 // 10 Ways to Kill Yourself

This video was made in December 2007 for my final project in my first film production class. It is a dark comedy about a man who has decided to end his life, but he just can't seem to get it quite right and continually messes it up. I came up with the idea for it when my other group members kept trying to think of possible stories where we could kill the character in the end, and I thought that the only thing better would be to try to kill him multiple times. The video was shot over a period of about three to four weeks and I did all of the post production for it. 10 Ways To Kill Yourself won the iBradley Media Festival in Spring 2008.

November 2007 // Some Postman

My favorite project in Multimedia Film Production was making this music video. The song my group chose was "Some Postman" by the Presidents of the United States of America. I was the group leader and came up with the idea, framed most of the shots, and did editing and color correction. The video was actually shot using three different cameras which made getting all of them to look the same a little bit difficult since we were shooting the same thing from different angles (we didn't want the fake band getting angry for making them play the same song 30 times).

August 2007 // Schizophrenic Seamstress

This was a short video made at the beginning of my film production class in August 2007. The assignment was to make a video that tells something about yourself. I have been making some of my own clothing since I was in high school, so I decided to go with the idea of showing the process of designing and making a garment by compressing it down into one minute. The music is by the band Dresden Dolls.

April 2007 // The Black Car

The Black Car was done for one of my Flash programming classes to be integrated into a Flash website. The assignment was to document our greatest fear, so I chose kidnapping. All of the sound was replaced using sound effects in Final Cut Pro.

November 2006 // Snooze

Snooze was the first video I ever made and the first time I'd used Final Cut Pro. It was done for my Introduction to Multimedia class and is a short about a girl who hits her snooze button one too many times and ends up being late for class.