{"id":31,"date":"2018-10-03T18:35:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T18:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JosephW\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2019-05-20T17:29:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:29:24","slug":"showcase","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/freestyleacademy.rocks\/~JosephW\/showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello! My name is Joseph Watson, I am a Film student at Freestyle Academy. Through this program, I have improved on my skills as a filmmaker and storyteller over the last two years. Outside of Freestyle, I spend my time playing sports such as hockey, basketball and football, as well as making music and hanging out with my friends. <\/span><\/p>\n

For my Showcase I chose the works that I have because of the amount of time I put into them and the final product that came from that time. I have chosen my explorations project and my Junior Narrative. My explorations project is a short clip of the effects I had to layer onto my footage frame by frame, of which I did everything myself. The Junior Narrative was a collaboration between Ben Cornell and I. On this project I worked \u00a0primarily on small sound effects as well as the editing process, with some work on the actual filming. <\/span><\/p>\n

I would appreciate feedback on the effectiveness of the digital effects and the storytelling, focusing on how the clips are cut together as well as any effects you found engaging.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next year I will attend St. Cloud State University to study Mechanical Engineering, though I fully intend to continue creating films. <\/span><\/p>\n

You can reach me at <\/span>josephw@freestyleacademy.rocks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Explorations project was an opportunity at the end of Junior year to work on something of our choice to better our skills of production (or pre\/post production). For my explorations I focused on visual effects, more specifically light-saber effects. For this I took footage of two of my friends and went through frame by frame to create a short fight scene where their light-sabers are glowing and whatnot. Here’s my process:<\/p>\n

First I took the edited footage into after effects and created a solid object and key framed its movement every frame for the later steps.<\/p>\n

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Next I added a glow effect to the solid to create a light-saber like glow.
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I then added a color overlay to each solid to create the color of a light-saber.
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Overall, I think that the final project, though short, was one of my better if no the best work of my Junior year as I did something that I wanted to learn and really did my best. Here’s the final result:<\/p>\n\t\t\t

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