...as a kite.

This has to be my favorite amateur music video on the internet, and not just because of the song. It reminds me of the videos that I used to make when I first became interested in cinematography. This comes off to me as a film that was made on imovie, complete with pictures that were taken straight from google images. The music in the beginning along with the meaningful imagery fools the viewer into thinking that this is going to be a song about love or angst (as long as they don't know what the title is). I noticed that it applies the rule of thirds to almost all of the shots, and switches up the shot types throughout the video (middle close ups, slow motion in parts, pans, etc). On top of it all, I, and I'm sure others, can really relate to this video; I've never been able to find a porcupine on the internet . This movie gets an 8 out of 10 from me.

I'm Adam Sandler

This video comes from a series of short movies made by an improve comedy group based in New York. All of their short films are outrageous, and they have a movie in production that promises to be just as ridiculous as their projects. The video entitled “Celebrity” is one that follows all the rules of film making closely. The two primary shots of it were a medium and a medium close-up, which all had appropriate amounts of head room and look space for each character. The use of repetition in the naming of Adam Sandler’s movies and the build up of characters amused me as well. I also appreciated the convinience store setting which made for a colorful scene. The lighting at the end could have been fixed though, that did throw me off a little. I give this a 7 out of 10.

Feel Great

The first thing that caught my eye in this video was the intensity in every one’s expressions. At first they all seem normal until their lives are made AMAZING by this one man and his nutrigrain bar. The expression on the man’s face in the beginning drew your eyes right to his, instead of the bar in his hands. The next thing I noticed was the fire hosing type camera work. This sort of filming technique made it seem as if you were with the employee who felt great, all the way up to when the whole lot of them were throwing their arms in the air screaming, “YEAH!” You can expect a recurring theme in my videos (none of them will be deep).