Month: January 2023

I wasn’t in class as I had to take my dog to the ER… fun morning. But this Adobe AR app was quite interesting and very intuitive to figure out even though I wasn’t present for the lecture. I was able to do everything on the iOS app and without my difficult. It was cool to do create an AR environment/design without needing to know how to code.

I came up with a “new home” card as a good friend of my just moved into a new place and tried to might their aesthetic, with plants and chaotic energy with mismatched letters. The only problem that I ran into was trying to figure out the path for the interactions of the plants. Ultimately, I wasn’t able to figure it out but I got pretty close to what I wanted just messing with the dials.

-Pak

A personal project that I’m currently working on is a film called Wild United. This is a project that I’ve had in mind before entering the program for my old guiding company here in Seattle. It follows two separate groups of students backpacking in different locations.It involves going to two different locations, one of which was in the Desolation Wilderness in California and one here in the PNW. I shot the first half in California last summer.

My timeline is as follows:

Jan-May 2023: Pre-production, organize footage from Bay Area, logistics with BOLD & GOLD, create trailer with footage already acquired

Jun-August 2023: Ship Royal Robbins product finalize trip selection, Production in WA

August – November 2023: Editing & post-production

December 2023: Share and celebrate!

What I would need to execute the project is to finalize my contract with Royal Robbins and if it doesn’t follow through, work with BOLD & GOLD to find different funding. Also, I would need to find someone (photographer) to come with me on the backpacking trip to get product photos for Royal Robbins. 

Superhot Oculus Quest

Superhot VR is a first-person shooter time is at a standstill until you move then everything moves superfast and the enemies start becoming a threat. Basically, you are a superhuman who can see at slower speeds and who is taking down shooters while you move along a set path, Neo. It requires the player to have two controllers and a headset while tracking their movements.

It is the only video game to this day that made me drip with sweat. I played it at the elite level after I got the hang of it and I was ducking, moving, and dodging rapidly. My adrenaline is pumping right from the start.

The scenarios and campaign are pretty easy but once you try the different difficulty levels it gets very difficult. It is easily the best game I’ve ever played on the VR.

Some things I would change are the enemy locations. They pop up in a set pattern and it would be more interesting with random locations. After you play a level a few times you get the hang of where things will be and the excitement kind of fades. The other criticism that I have is the melee component is quite lacking. There is a weird lag from when you initiate unlike the bullets which do a really good job.

But overall, with the Survival and Campaign modes, I can definitely see myself playing this over and over again especially to work up a sweat indoors in an entertaining way!

Please write about an experience with a project HERE AT THE CREATIVE ACADEMY in which you prepared for your work but then had to pivot to accommodate circumstances that you did not predict. Tell us about the assignment parameters, your plan for the project, how you set about accomplishing it, and what the unforeseen circumstances were that you had to adapt to. Lastly, how did the project turn out, and how did it compare to your original plan.

For our visual media class, we had to shoot a documentary of our own chosen interest. I decided to film a short doc on my friend who runs the Peddling Relief Project, whose mission is food rescue through working with food banks to deliver food to those in most need. So, I setup up a day to do interviews with him. Because of the location and season, there just wasn’t enough natural lighting to shoot it in the office building. So, I decided to find a space outside even though there was a lot of noise.

Initially, I was planning on placing a lav mic on the subject for the primary audio source and use a shotgun mic as the secondary with a camera placed at a different angle. After setting up the lav, I realized that I forgot to insert the small microsd card before leaving so that rendered that useless. And so we went with the shotgun mic. After reviewing my footage, for some reason my shotgun didn’t record at all which was strange since I placed in new batteries. So, I had to use the cameras internal mic as the primary audio source.

Yeah, it wasn’t ideal but I was able to at least get audio for the interview, although it wasn’t the best sound. I was able to tweak and isolate the voice just enough that there wasn’t too much background noise and didn’t sound too hollow. The project turned out fine as I had a really awesome b-roll after shooting for 2 days but man, sometimes things just turn out as planned even with your backup!