Juggling Projects

These last couple of week I have been having a difficult time juggling multiple projects. Besides my schoolwork, I have been working on the edits for the DDAY paintball project, writing a script, working on pre-production for a short film and working on ideas for a promotional video for an art studio. It takes a good plan of action and a lot of dedication to stick to a tight schedule. I have prioritized these different projects and have been working on each of them accordingly. One nice thing about having multiple projects to work on at the same time, is the ability to switch from one project to another when I start to feel like I am getting burnt out on one of them. It is very important to keep a fresh mind and not over work myself and get tired of working nonstop on a single project. I have to really budget my time  with this many projects to work on at one time. I have to determine the importance of each project, what their deadlines are, and estimate how much time will be needed to complete each project.

Another thing that I have been working on is making these paintball videos unique. There are going to be seven of them and I want to make sure that each of them have their own distinct look and feel. I have been watching a lot of other paintball videos and military simulated videos for ideas and inspiration. I found one paintball video that was shot in a really cool way. You can check it out here:
https://vimeo.com/28817900

This video, Spitfire (Capture The Can) was shot on the Phantom Flex @ 1,000 frames per second. I really liked the idea of shooting at such a high speed and then speeding up and slowing down the footage. They made this short video so it would look like it was shot in one take and seemed very fluid. You can get a closer look at this video with their behind the scenes video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPY0b0mVZ5o

P.O.V. Edit

As you know, I have recently been in Oklahoma filming the world’s largest paintball event, DDAY Oklahoma. I am back in Florida now, in the beginning stages of editing the footage from the week-long paintball event. I have completed at short trailer for the event here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-4g75GGvP0&list=UUVxmnmN3iCSmQsOL10a76IQ&index=5&feature=plcp

This trailer is just a small taste of what is to come in following months of editing. I plan on creating a video for each day of paintballing. Right now I am working on a rough cut for the second day of play. I have decided to make each of these videos different. I want each of them to have their own flavor.

For the video of the second day, I have decided to make it look and feel like a first person shooter style video game. I am in the process of creating a H.U.D. with Adobe After Effects. I am using some of the design ideas from the games Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty. I want to make the viewer feel like they are a part of the game. I have mounted two cameras on myself, one on my head and the other on the front of my gun aimed back at my face. I plan on cutting between these two points of view to keep the flow of the edit interesting.

Some of the ideas that I want to incorporate in this video are to have friend or foe identification for other players. I am going to have blue and red symbols above people’s heads to help identify the teams. I am going to have ammo and air counters in the corner of the screen. After I add these layers to my edit I will work on color correction and find some music that will work well with this video.