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The film that Karina Diaz and I made together was called Two Guys and One Sandwich. When I thought of what movie I should make for my silent film , I thought that I should do a funy chase scene. The plot of this movie is:

After spending time and dedication into making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, the protaganist Joseph finds his beloved sandwich sandwich-napped( if that is a real word) by Josee (actually Jose). 

I thought that the video was hilarious especially because it was fun to make and direct. 

Watch and See….

i made this “silent film” with Tommy. We each edited the film and had a part in filming it. We came up with the same idea for the music and it all came together nicely.

For the past three years in high school, I have noticed something. There are phases that a typical high school goes through each year, no matter what year and no matter who. Although this may not be the case for all students, it IS the case for MOST students. In this video are clips of several high school students. The segments of video are broken up into phases and grouped together to show the different types of motivation, procrastination and success. The music is “Streamline” and it goes from a normal speed [to display the fact that it is the beginning og the school year and everything is going "fine" for all students], then it slows down [due to the fact that students are in the stages of procrastination and school is "slow" to them], then the music speeds up drastically [to display the mind of a high schooler that is going through stress and has to do things last minute and all at once], and finally, the music goes back to its normal tempo [because in the end, students are back to the feeling of "fine" when things are over].

 

In this video I record the different styles of fashion SMASH scholars dress up with. All styles are unique and they give each person a lively personality.

This is a silent movie base on FRIENDS, the story in this movie basically explains how Lydia and I met our first year in SMASH, and how we are still together and that we are always going to be no matter what. At the end of the silent movie it expresses how friendship means a lot and that you can make this work no matter how far away you are from them you can make it work.

This video took so much effort to make. It is not until one makes a music video do they know how hard it is to really go about making one. This project done by myself and De Vonna Jacobs helped us to have even a closer bond as sisters. Enjoy!

So, Trevor and Simon, I’m not sure if you are aware of everything that has happened this weekend, but I had to re-do most of my video and i did not have much time to work on any work from any of my classes. I hope you will understand, just as i understand that my work is late and will accept any consequence you deem necessary without complaint.

Here’s my video:

The assignment was to make a music video and/or a silent film. La’Vonnda and I chose to re-create the video ” Shut u and Let me Go” by the Ting Tings 

 

In this HMB production, black crime is looked upon and pictures are used as vocal representations of the thoughts of one student.

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Hi Everyone,
I’m Juan Del Toro and here is my video, “I Poisoned My Twin”. In this video, I worked on a split screen feature. This video is still in the “fixing” process, because the ending is not as smooth as it should. I hope you enjoy the video.

Thank you,
Juan

This video is a silent video about two people who run out of popcorn when watching a Japanese game show. They try to put the remaining kernels back into the microwave, but find out that their microwave is broken, so they must find an alternative way to try and pop their kernels.

Actors/Actresses:
Diana Park
Liliana Pang
Ashleigh Kitzhaber
Ralph Gomez
Inocente Estela

Thanks to camera people:
Kathy Tran
Vivian Onuoha

Hey people,

   Heres my video girl fight starting me my best friend Jackie and my homedog Jose!! Its about a girl who gets a text from someone saying that she saw her boyfriend with her best friend at the club. So she confronts her best friends and then they get into this huge fist fight. So when Jose comes to the house he sees them fighting over him. But before its to late the two best friends realize that boys shouldn’t come between there friendship.

I decided to make a silent film for my assignment #3 and I decided to make it about Hurricane Katrina. In this video in the very beginning I am not able to sleep, so I am turning and turning around my bed until I fall. When I fall from my bed I appear in some other place,  soart of like a dream world or illusion that my mind is playing. In that illusion I have written in my hand Hurricane. Then suddenly i fall again and I get up again but this time something on my arm is written, which says Katrina. Then I start having this vision of a hurricane and people affected by it. I get frustrated because I can not do anything about it. Then I have another vision with help on their way to aid the people and finally my mind is relaxed and I am able to go to sleep. Basically I had a premonition of what was going to happen in New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina and I was upset that I was not able to do anything about it. But my brained calmed down after I knew that the people were going to be alright.

For my silent film, i worked together with Liliana Pang to create the story of two girls in search of different methods to pop their popcorn kernels. After painstakingly filming and editing the video and the audio, our silent film was born. 

Hi everyone,
Assignment #4 was to make a silent film or music video; the purpose of the project was to produce something that did not have audio and still be able to communicate. I chose to do a music video to the song “Down in the River” because it has recently become very important to me in a spiritual sense. I first head the song during a retreat I experienced just before beginning my summer session at SMASH. The most difficult part of the assignment was getting the “mothers” and “fathers” to actually go down to the creek to film; all I needed them to do was walk down some stairs, but it was so hard to actually get them to leave the dorms for a given amount of time!

Anyway, I’m really excited about having finished this video, and I’m really glad I was finally able to post it!

ok so I really enjoyed making my silent movie. I got to play around with many different camera angles to get a original camera shots. I think (if my initial PSA doesnt get revoked) this movie might have been my best publication.watch?v=EHjF6z_mjP0

Once Vivian got the idea to create a movie about to guys fighting for a sandwich, I immediately thought of Jose and Joseph to play the roles. Thankfully they agreed.

The decisions made for the edit were really based on keeping all shots quick and entertaining, building up momentum to the final outcome.

We hope you enjoy. We definitely had fun filming, especially the chase scenes. It is funny and highly recommended. 

 

Title: TBD
Directed by: Liliana Pang & Diana Park
Music: Not available at the moment
Actors: Liliana, Diana, and more (?)

Summary: Someone runs out of popcorn and finds out their microwave is broken. There’s no way for that person to make their popcorn and uses multiple methods to try and pop some kernels.

So I decided to change the topic of my 3rd assgnment. Because I could not get a soccerbal, and because my previous idea would’ve produced a very short film, I decided to do a compare and contrast situation between a student who’s late to class and a student who is early to show the importance of attending class on time.

My plan for this assignment is to either do a silent film on the topic of love, or to do a music video that shows how music and dance has changed since the 20th Century. But for right now I can not due much work because I am having technical difficulties but hopefully I will clear that up so I can have a solid foundation. But for now I am just outlining how my project is going to look like.