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don't stop believing

2010-03-15T23:21:00.001-04:00

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Just a typical Wednesday night in Buffalo.

Houghton College Communication Department

2010-02-03T17:33:00.001-05:00

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This is a video I made for the communication department at Houghton College.

A Certain Kind of Person

2009-12-03T22:13:00.001-05:00

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Made for a conference about service for the college I went to.

Seeing

2009-11-28T17:54:00.001-05:00

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This is my contribution to the 30 Days 30 People 30 Videos Project for Navlopomo 2009.

Art Gallery 10/17/2009

2009-10-17T00:51:00.001-04:00

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Friday's are free at the local art gallery which translates into AWESOME!

Shot and edited this on my iPhone.

Found

2009-09-23T18:40:00.001-04:00

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I went shooting today with a friend.

Bees

2009-09-03T21:45:00.001-04:00

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I'm seriously trying to get over my fear of bees.

Bad Weather

2009-07-26T10:50:00.001-04:00

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So this summer I've been working for a sound company and I have to say I love my job. It has its ups and downs like anything but at the end of the day its awesome. Somedays we know its going to be rough. This weekend half of our crew was running on no sleep for over 24 hrs and the other half averaged around 2hrs when we had to set up for the next show. We were out in the middle of a field and the day started when our semi full of sound equipment got stuck and we had to do a truck to truck transfer to even get gear to stage (we still started on time). We could have done without the E1 (I have no idea what that means-but thats what the news says) hurricane that passed through. This shot is of our LD Yogi holding a tent down after it cleared up enough for me to take a hand of the tarp I was protecting a soundboard with.

Ride to Buffalo

2009-06-29T14:00:00.001-04:00

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Taken with my iPhone-messed with in After Effects.

Simple

2009-05-25T23:18:00.001-04:00

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One of my favorite places to go in the summer. Trying out my new camera.

Right

2009-04-11T21:56:00.001-04:00

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My mom just can't admit Obama is doing a good job. I think she secretly thinks he is tho.

Bubbles

2009-04-10T13:56:00.001-04:00

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What do they think about? We would all like to know. Day Six for videobloggingweek2009.

Development Class

2009-04-08T16:31:00.001-04:00

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Little video taken during the break of our development class. The professor is one of the sharpest, most caring, and active people I know in the development world. She has really helped me think people can make a difference in the world. This video wouldn't have been possible without the gracious donation of cold medicine from www.davehuth.com. Day 4 for videoblogging week 2009.

Snow showers bring may flowers?

2009-04-07T15:57:00.001-04:00

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I'm so sick of snow. Day Three for: http://videobloggingweek2009.blogspot.com/

Vlogging Vlog Tests

2009-04-06T20:37:00.001-04:00

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Trying to find time to vlog and running out of time. Day two post for: http://videobloggingweek2009.blogspot.com/

Priorities

2009-04-05T21:34:00.001-04:00

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Video for day one of videoblogging week 2009. Had to curb the enthusiasm because I had a 10 page paper to write. Pretty much only had time to sloppily animate the logo.

Train

2009-03-07T22:51:00.001-05:00

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The reason I haven't been vlogging very much is because I haven't had time this semester. I'm working on an independent study in MAYA tho and I thought I would share a bit of it. Another student and I are trying to figure out how to make our final project. This is a test render in After Effects with a Train we created as part of our exercises.

Inauguration!

2009-01-21T23:21:00.001-05:00

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A quick video of my experience at the inauguration. I drove down with two of my friends from New York to DC to witness it in person. Fantastic time and well worth dealing with the crowds. Music by: Gurdonark. www.ccmixter.net

Existentialism

2009-01-08T23:06:00.001-05:00

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Very possibly the strangest thing that I've ever made. I'll tell you what its about if you ask. Thanks to David Howell for letting me use his video as a large piece of this project. Check out the non-mashed up version of "Falling Slowly" at his website. It's very beautiful. http://www.davidhowellstudios.com/ Music: morgantj "Existentialism" www.ccmixter.org

Antarctica Crew

2009-01-05T17:54:00.001-05:00

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Some of the crew moments from my recent trip to Antartica. Nothing special and I can't imagine all that interesting to anyone who wasn't there :). But... a taste of the life I lived for a month on a ship with the Irish!

Reflection

2008-12-31T23:43:00.001-05:00

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A bit of reflection on years past. Happy New Year.

Antarctica

2008-12-11T15:37:00.001-05:00

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I've been mysteriously absent from posting mainly because I spent the last month helping with a production in Antarctica. There is more coming but I have to finish up my missed school work first. In the meantime here is a video that I made summarizing the trip for credit.

Evangelicals

2008-10-30T12:31:00.001-04:00

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"God is not a Republican or a Democrat. People of faith shouldn't be in any party's political pocket."

3 Questions for a whole mess of evangelical Christians.

Kerry Brogan http://kbrogan.com

Dave Huth http://davehuth.com

Vlog Anarchy in After Effects

2008-10-20T15:02:00.001-04:00

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My Second Project for an After Effects based class. The main inspiration and audio for this project is from Michael Verdis Vlog Anarchy. His original video can be found here: http://michaelverdi.com/index.php/2005/02/20/vlog-anarchy/ I tried to include videos/people that represent the diversity of videoblogging. The other videos that are included can be found at the sites listed below. I tried to make sure everything I used was Creative Commons. If your video is included and you dont want it to be, drop me a comment and Ill take this down. Mad as Hell www.twittervlog.tv Monday May 26th 2008 www.rocketboom.com Big Announcement! Were Moving to the Mountains Literally www.ryanishungry.com Vlog Anarchy www.michaelverdi.com Baghdad Security Plan Burdens Residents www.aliveinbaghdad.org Michigan Snow www.joshleo.com What Did Daniel and Dad Talk About? www.lg15.com Extraordinary Things 2 www.davehuth.com Elvis was a Dream www.robertcroma.com Net Neutrality www.askaninja.com Evolution of Dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGQMyN75LFQ 3-27-07 www.zefrank.com Grand Land www.nealy.blogspot.com Good and BadTopic for Conversation www.completelyknown.com #076 www.human-dog.com The Impossibility of Holding on to that Feeling www.pouringdown.tv I Hollaed Back www.ryanedit.blogspot.com Crazy Arms www.momentsshowing.net Face Explosions, Hackable Wallets, Society Forever www.epicfu.com Charlie the Unicorn www.filmcow.com

Happiness

2008-10-05T13:34:00.001-04:00

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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky Special thanks to everyone who agreed to let me interview them.

Life/Death

2008-09-28T12:30:00.001-04:00

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First After Effects project. Quote is from Garden State.

Community Orphan Trust Program

2008-08-13T17:41:00.001-04:00

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I don't usually post non-personal work on here but this is something that has consumed a great majority of my time this summer. It's a video promoting World Hope South Africa's Community Orphan Trust Program. http://www.whsa.co.za/?p=ctp.php

What I Saw

2008-07-29T22:16:00.001-04:00

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B-roll from a few months ago when I went to South Africa.

Memory

2008-07-22T17:49:00.001-04:00

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Sometimes memories I want to hold onto fade.

Hope

2008-07-14T22:54:00.001-04:00

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Humanity unites us.

Walk

2008-07-10T10:50:00.001-04:00

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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~John Muir

dV Start/Stop Detect in Final Cut Pro

2008-07-08T11:34:00.002-04:00

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A time consuming and often tedious part of the video editing process is logging and capturing individual editable clips in Final Cut Pro. Capturing the entire tape as one clip is easy, but that makes cutting the captured footage into smaller clips useful in editing difficult. But not if you use Final Cut Pro's Start/Stop Detect feature.

Putt Putt

2008-07-03T15:49:00.001-04:00

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Uh. so this is pretty ridiculous. Been helping run a "media geek camp" this week. Tired.

Mothers Day

2008-05-12T01:20:00.001-04:00

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Mothers Day 2008. All my mom wanted to do was go to a park and walk around. I thought it would be fun to bring my camera.

Frool

2008-05-04T23:45:00.001-04:00

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Just a little taste of where I'm at.

How Often...

2008-04-21T00:02:00.004-04:00

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Often I'm so busy doing other things that I never take the time to notice how interesting the world can be. Partially a response to Dave Huth's "On Paying Attention' Music: "analogs" www.mobygratis.com

Mammon

2008-04-13T23:34:00.001-04:00

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"You cannot serve both God and money"

Stories: Thembi "break in"

2008-04-07T23:50:00.002-04:00

A friend I met in South Africa telling me a story about how her house was broken into.

What I Saw Today

2008-03-16T22:44:00.001-04:00

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This is what I saw today. Happy St. Patrick's Day.

Hands Do.

2008-03-09T19:44:00.002-04:00

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The future is scary. What will my hands do?

Definitely taking a page out of Dave Huth's book for this one. (www.davidhuth.com) What can I say he's a great teacher and friend.

Music: Devin Anderson from Podsafeaudio.com

-City-

2008-03-05T00:33:00.001-05:00

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From my trip to London. Hope you like it. Music: Devin Anderson "Trifels-A Play in One Act" www.podsafeaudio.com

Worry

2008-02-25T00:29:00.001-05:00

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Description: What do you worry about? My friends and I worry a lot about the future. I also worry about the test that I blew off studying for to make this video. Music: Bobhellbringer You Need www.ccmixter.org

Meaning

2008-02-18T00:24:00.001-05:00

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A collaborative Vlog Opera (vlopera?) between myself and videoblogger Dave Huth http://davemedia.blogspot.com . Im not sure what we were thinking. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Slew of groovy tunes from http://podsafeaudio.com and http://ccmixter.org .

Happy Valentine's Day

2008-02-13T23:59:00.002-05:00

What would happen if we wrote what we really wanted to say in Valentine's Day cards?
Music: Likewater "When You Hide" www.podsafeaudio.com

I don't know what the deal with blip is right now. I can't get it to cross-post and I'm do tired to figure it out.

Full size version is here: http://blip.tv/file/get/Reeltoreel-HappyValentinesDay968.m4v

Light-Response

2008-02-05T00:55:00.001-05:00

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Sort of in response to CD's challenge in week five to produce some light art (http://blip.tv/file/632641) and Michael Aivaliotis post (http://michael.aivaliotis.com/2008/01/26/light-painting-experiment-with-the-kids/#respond). Still trying to figure out some in camera ways to animate light without using stop motion. Experimenting is always fun tho.

Music: "Bouncing to the Mourge" by Devin Anderson. http://www.podsafeaudio.com/

Experiment

2008-01-27T23:32:00.001-05:00

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I am the teaching assistant for a digital video class. This week my task was to give a demonstration on logging and capturing in Final Cut. One cool thing Final Cut will do is allow you to recapture an clips that you may have deleted while still saving all the edits in the timeline. I couldn't resist trashing all of my footage and having it randomly reconnect in the timeline. Strange.........

belief-3

2008-01-22T23:55:00.001-05:00

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Third in a series of shorts about belief. This is my friend Ryan. The first time I met him he was cussing in chapel. My kind of guy.

dream

2008-01-13T22:07:00.001-05:00

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Weird? Maybe, but I'm okay with that. Taking a week off of straight documentary stuff to explore a feeling I was having.

Music from podsafemusic.com: "Trifles" by Devin Anderson

Belief-2

2008-01-09T18:21:00.001-05:00

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The second of a series of interviews about belief and the beliefs of the people that hold them.

The music came from www.ccmixter.org by Tomas y. its called "Fuer Bob"

belief-1

2008-01-03T01:56:00.001-05:00

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The first of a series of interviews about belief and the beliefs of the people that hold them.

New York-New York

2007-12-23T02:46:00.001-05:00

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Clips from my recent trip to New York City. I would be remise if I didn't mention Jay Dedman (www.momentshowing.net) and Ryanne Hodson (http://ryanedit.blogspot.com/) because looking at their work was definitely an inspiration for a clip like this. The music is from http://www.podsafeaudio.com/. It is "Movement One" by Ocean Alexander.

Taking out the Trash

2007-12-16T22:17:00.001-05:00

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World AIDS Day 2007

2007-11-02T10:15:00.001-04:00

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I video I made to support a international event that my college participates in called Word AIDS Day. Interviews included: Megan Nykyforchyn-Clark the HIV/AIDS Manager for World Hope International, Charlotte Keniston a Houghton College Alumnus and currently a Faith and Justice Fellow Acting on AIDS for World Vision, and Rachel Varughese a Houghton College Alumnus. For more information on World Aids Day and the epidemic of HIV/AIDS around the world check out these sites. http://www.worldaidscampaign.info/index.php/en/campaigns/in_country_campaigns/north_america/usa www.worldhope.org www.worldvision.org www.actingonaids.org

It's Killing Me

2007-10-25T17:36:00.001-04:00

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By nature I make documentary type stuff. I don't feel comfortable letting my feelings show or dealing with personal matters in public arenas. This is definitely one of the most personal videos I've ever posted. I'd been toying with narrative work recently and when this idea was born was rather upset about my work in general and just me as a person. Luckily, I have great people in my life that encourage me to create even when I don't think I can and push me to do my best for me and not for what others. I hope whoever sees this enjoys it but I didn't make it for you. I made it for me. It was a struggle to even be willing to post it. I owe many thanks to David Stith for graciously letting me use his music. You can check his work out at www.dmstith.com. I also owe many thanks to Dave Huth who always offers encouragement on my crazy ideas and provides me inspiration through his work. You can check his work out at www.davidhuth.com. "Real teachers make you believe in yourself, even when you would rather take the easy way out and quit. They draw the best out of you and their inspiration often gives you the courage to fight on." -Ron Lindeboom

Performance

2007-10-20T22:40:00.000-04:00

Friends-
Some Houghton students and I participated in a contest promoted by Apple in which we had 24 hours to write, cast, shoot and edit a 3 minute short film. The top 25 films are screened before judges including Barry Sonnenfeld, James Mangold and Nora Ephron. However, in order to get into the top 25 we need you! The public votes in order to decide which films are good enough to get into the top 25.

We would really appreciate your vote.

To vote all you have to do is go here

There it will prompt you to login and give you further instructions if you don't have an apple ID. Apple makes it really easy to create an apple ID if you don't have one so please don't let that deter you from voting.

If you would like to know more about the process of participating I'm happy to answer any questions and there is a short press release on Houghton's website as well that you can find here

Thanks!
Kerry

laughter

2007-09-17T23:09:00.001-04:00

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I couldn't pull anything but laughter off this tape so I decided to make a video about laughter.

"House Dinner"

2007-09-01T23:23:00.001-04:00

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Well if you looked at my house and had to pick out who you thought would be the ones cooking...I guarantee you would not choose me and Kate. However, we have found that we actually do the majority of the cooking despite our adventures exteriors we are little Susie homemakers on the inside.

Just for Fun

2007-08-14T14:52:00.001-04:00

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I have a special sense of humor. Just a little look into my life of helping on with a friends video project.

Red Sauce

2007-07-25T20:51:00.001-04:00

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Sometimes I get really bored at Houghton waiting to do things. This is an example of what I do when I am bored and feeling motivated. Notice the "pleasentville" effect.

Steadi Cam

2007-07-19T17:20:00.001-04:00

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My college just bought their first steadi cam. Its pretty sweet but is taking for ever to figure out. These are the first shots I took with it.

I'm a monstere

2007-07-04T08:48:00.001-04:00

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Sometimes when I stay up late and night scary things happen. I had to wait for something to post so I could send a client the link. I didn't feel like watching a movie so I took some footage shot earlier today, or well yesterday now, and cut it together. Glad we can all have fun with each other.

Beauty Shines Alone

2007-07-02T13:11:00.001-04:00

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Day Two of Test Shots

2007-06-16T21:38:00.001-04:00

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Round two of tests shots for a project I'm working on this summer.

What I'm doing this summer.

2007-06-11T22:18:00.001-04:00

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Well a lot of people have asked me what I'm doing this summer. Truth is I'm doing a lot of things and a lot of it is hard to explain, but this is going to be a major part of it. Today Dave, Charlotte and me went out into the woods to do some tests shots before the actors get here. Its was a good time and definitely helpful. Not sure if I'll keep posting from daily/weekly shoots but maybe.

Full Frame

2007-05-16T17:50:00.001-04:00

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In April myself and two other students were given the opportunity to go to the full frame documentary film festival in Durham, North Carolina. It was great to go there and learn as well as see our professors video shown on the big screen. We got to do a lot of cool things and it was a lot of fun. We did have some major technical difficulties as far as shooting footage....aka I forgot the camera one day and tapes the next so this is random snippets from when we did have the camera. Not going to an academy award with the editing either. 9

"Belief"

2007-04-28T15:17:00.001-04:00

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This is my final project for Daves class. Its an idea he really let me run with and I will continue to work on this project over the summer because its going to be my festival piece. I would love to here anyones thoughts. They will help me as I continue to edit and think about the ideas I want to communicate.

2007-03-19T23:06:00.000-04:00

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Well--I've been really interested in faith traditions latley and where our beliefs come from. I have the freedom in one of my classes to basically do anything so I am doing a large scale video documantryish type thing on belief. I set up the lights tonight and one of my friends was in the lab. He was kind enough to let me interview him. The audio sucks--I know. It was a on-boad camera mic. This wasn't meant to be a finished product just a lighting and angle test really. Let me know what you think.

2007-02-20T21:07:00.000-05:00

Project for Digital Imaging. Good thing I am better at video editing! Oh attempts.

Reinforcements Needed

2007-01-30T21:36:00.001-05:00

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This was a project for my DV 1 class. We were asked to edit together a simple task with three camera angles. The story comes from the fact that my video camera has been broken since I bought it--its actually going back to cannon for its 4th time--and my overwhelming frustration with Canon. The idea was definitely inspired by my friend Dave Huths Vlog post entitled "Collaboration" (http://davemedia.blogspot.com/).

Human Trafficking

2006-12-12T17:54:00.000-05:00

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This is a video for a class I am taking at Houghton College. It is an interview with Kristin Wiebe who is the Director of Anti-Trafficking for World Hope International about human trafficking. The background footage was provided by World Hope International. The music was provided by Kevin Jackson. Andy Parks helped with filming and I did the editing and the other filming. I don't think this is the final copy of the video but its a start. Enjoy.

Surfin' Houghton Style

2006-12-04T19:03:00.000-05:00

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Well, with tensions running high and exams looming, something has to be done. Why not take a surf board and go sledding with two great friends. With my camera out of commission my roommate used her camera to get some great shots. :)

The Rose

2006-12-02T14:31:00.000-05:00

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This is a music video I did for thehungr a long time ago...I think about two years now. I was looking through some old media for a project I'm doing and found it. Enjoy. Feel free to let me know what you think if you do watch the whole thing. I almost want to say this is what I cut my teeth on because this is really the first big video thing I did. Word of advice--if you don't know what your doing...don't start with an 18 camera angle music video.

Houghton Ultimate

2006-11-01T18:25:00.000-05:00

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Well....so I saw a sweet video blog today (http://davemedia.blogspot.com/)and had a great urge to edit something. I had the footage of our home tourney for awhile now so I figured I might put something together with it. Heres a look into what it means to play Ultimate Frisbee for Houghton College.

Class Project

2006-10-24T16:05:00.000-04:00

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This is a class project I did for Blogs Vlogs and Personal Media. Kinda funny. Thanks Daren!

The Fatherhood of God

2006-10-24T11:35:00.000-04:00

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This is a video I did for Dr. Cases Theological Explorations in Youth Culture and Media class. Our task was to introduce the idea of God as father and to explain it as if we were explaining it to teenagers in a ministry setting. This was the video I edited to introduce the topic to the class as well as to get them thinking. This is probably the final post of this as the full version and I feel I need to at least thank a few people that kinda made this all happen. I had some great help doing the interviews with Bethany....helpful critique from Dave Huth...and Kevin Jackson produced all of the music for me. Thanks to all who helped.

Did I Mullen President Mullen?

2006-10-09T10:40:00.000-04:00

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The past two weeks I have been involved with this comedy show at my college called SPOT. Students put together various things such as skits and videos for the rest of the student bodies enjoyment. While we were planning all of this I was editing a video for Advancement of my colleges president. With some coaxing from the hosts and some friends I decided to make a video to introduce her live interview at SPOT. This is the chaos that ensued. The fist cut was a debacle. This is the final video. A big huge thanks goes out to Dave Huth for the final edit. He says "video is a long collaborative process, you put a lot of time into it to" I say he deserves all the credit. Enjoy.

President Mullen Project

2006-09-22T19:25:00.000-04:00

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Well--this is the video I did for Houghton this week. I would just like to note that I didn't shoot the footage or capture the audio. I did the editing, Dave Huth helped me by keeping me sane and giving me a few ideas, Kevin Jackson produced the audio overnight to pull this project off.

Fall Retreat 2006

2006-09-19T15:20:00.000-04:00

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The video highlight of the fall retreat this year. DEFY. It will go down as one of the most memorable weekends of my life. We will defy all that holds us back from you. Here's to a revolution.

the rest....

2006-08-15T15:45:00.000-04:00

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trial run

2006-08-14T16:40:00.000-04:00

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Redone

2006-08-04T15:20:00.000-04:00

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commercial redone. If an adult watched it they would have exploded.

Fall Retreat 2006 Commercial

2006-08-02T10:15:00.000-04:00

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Every year our youth group has an outreach event called the Fall Retreat. Its usually one of the highlights of the year. This year I was asked to make a commercial for it. I stole the editing style from a friend but I think it turned out pretty cool. Its probably the first video I have been excited about since the Boston Promo

2006-07-19T16:09:00.000-04:00

Aussi Camp Highlight

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This is just a brief post of the highlight video that I made for the camp I attended in Coolum Australia. 16 other Americans and I spent 3 weeks in Australia. One of the weeks included doing relational ministry at this camp. More to come when I can form better sentences. AKA I have really bad jet leg at an ear infection so it might be a day or two.

2006-06-19T15:48:00.000-04:00

Hub Leadership Team

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~Dave this is what I was talking about. Bad green screen work I realize. I was just a youngin when I did it probably in the first month of learning how to edit etc. My friend Curt did the main editing.

Allegany County Project

2006-06-18T00:35:00.000-04:00

Okay. Not gonna lie, I have had tons of fun working with the Allegany County Sheriffs Department for this video project that I am doing for them. Today was the last day that I will be up there shooting. I'm reletivly sad about that. It was really fun getting to know the guys/women that are corrections offices are hang out/learn/hear stories. its been really eye-opening and I know for sure that I don't want to go to jail especially after I saw the guys in this picture take down a inmate. Crazy.

2006-06-09T22:43:00.000-04:00

Prayer v. Verizon

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Well. This is a video for Sunday at my church. Its kinda last minute so the audio isn't my best and the video was free hand. Still thought it was kinda cool and funny. The main actor is T-rev, previously mention as the funniest person I know. Its true.

2006-06-07T23:23:00.000-04:00

Allegany County Prison History Intro

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Well...so I am working on 4 video projects right now. Crazy. This intro is the one I made for Allegany County Prison. I thought it was pretty cool so I decided to post it. I am still working with the Sheriff shooting video tomorrow and later on this month.

2006-06-05T22:38:00.000-04:00

KB 3

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2006-05-29T16:43:00.000-04:00

Houghton KB

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2006-05-23T16:42:00.000-04:00

Kingdom Bound Video Try "?"

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2006-05-19T20:12:00.000-04:00

Houghton 3

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Yup its a 3rd version. Sorry no music Jeff...to hard to post with dial up :)

2006-05-18T22:27:00.000-04:00

Houghton College KB 2

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Version Two

2006-05-17T22:57:00.000-04:00

KingdomBound Preview

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This would be the preview of the project I am working on for admissons. The only reason this made it onto my blog is so they can see it because i am going to be off campus. It is not the final edit. It is not even close to the final edit so no bagging on my video skills unless its the shady camera work. The end. Music used by permission. thehungr

Well

2006-05-16T15:21:00.000-04:00

Well I guess you could call today the first real class type thing I've done on the project so far. Today we went through the footage I shot on sat. at graduation. I was pleasantly surprised that it was somewhat good. It was kind of like reading a book. You know how to read a book but if someone explains to you what it takes to go into the reading of the book its super intense. and...i stink at metaphors.

I was never really taught how to video tape. I mean I took a class in high school and shot video for a year with my church. That would be the class I called tech services for my teacher in because he couldn't figure out how to turn the editing system on. Oh yeah and I taught my teacher about DI boxes in that class to. Joke. Casablanca Avio. Ha. Anyway it was really interesting to have my professor analyze what I shot in real language. Its one thing to have an eye for something and another to know why it looks good.

Anytime a professor beat boxes to illustrate a point..you know its going to be a good go at something (in his defense he's working on a big project and thus not getting a whole lot of sleep.) This is going to be extremely challenging and stretching but at least its going to be fun! And when I say challenging and stretching I mean in a good way. The only way to be able to snowboard black diamonds is to start on squares and fall trying.

Production Meeting

2006-05-15T20:04:00.000-04:00

Well- we had our first production meeting today. We being my professor and I. It was great fun only to say that hey-let meet tomorrow at nine. Funny. I think the best part of the meeting was when he had to slide his notes under his office door because Houghton hadn't issued him keys yet. Go Houghton so typical.

Its coming to my attention that this project is going to stretch my knowledge of film and how it is done. I'm scared, nervous and excited all at the same time. Its going to be great haha.

In other news I spent the afternoon looking for transitions that I have on the G5 because Curt left them there. My favorite transition lately has been a thing called vapor across its really neat and it excites me because I just got it and installed it!!!! woot. I am really far far to excited about this. I'm a dork.

First Day

2006-05-14T21:16:00.000-04:00

Wow-I guess this project is underway!

The first day of shooting started sat. at graduation. I realized I'm already am going to learn a ton! The day started off with what I assume will be typical...a production meeting to discuss shots etc. Definitely way more artistic than I'm used to. There is something a bit different from shooting kids puking than there is trying to get a good promo shot. I'm going to be learning so much. I'm really excited.