The Nutshell Statement

Kenneth Kwok is a native of Toronto, home of the TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival). He has experience in filmmaking and video editing and possibly even sound editing. He is currently studying at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Material Arts and Design since Fall of 2011.

My art style varies from short-films to portraits of random celebrities and friends, and even woodwork. When making videos, I prefer to make videos of love and friendship and often without any dialogue. I believe the theme of love and friendship is really easy to work with because this theme is so broad that anything like comedy or thrillers can be added in the work. Like many good films, my videos require a well thought-out story line. Aside from that, to make my videos, I use whatever equipment I have, like a tripod, to get high and low shots without the use of a ladder or a higher platform. A decent camera is required as well of course.

In my opinion, I think all films are similar, if not the same. But I guess my work is different from the others such that I use cheap and good quality equipment and I like to include some sort of comedic relief in most of my videos.

There is inspiration everywhere; you just have to know where to find it. My inspiration is all over Youtube ranging from singer and song writers like ClaraC, to film makers like WongFu Productions

As a young artist, my goal is to learn from the best and hopefully become a well-known artist.

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Assignment #2: Video

            Before assignment 2 was given to us, I had already been thinking about how my film was going to be like.  In many cases, I had to scrap the original idea and went back to the script but in the end, everything turned out great.  At first when I began filming, things were rough.  Everything was in my head and nothing was on paper so neither one of my friends knew what they were suppose to do and I was confused about how each shot was going to be taken.  Fortunately, after the first day of filming, I was able to finally get a script together and everything was smooth from then on.  There was a lot of sun during the weekend so I decided that it would be the perfect time to film.  After 2 to 3 days of filming, I had realized that there weren’t enough clips to fill up even half the song, which was 3 minutes and 40 seconds.  This resulted in scrapping the script once again and re-thinking the plot.  The original idea of the script was that both cast members would mirror each other’s actions in a split screen kind of story.  However, that didn’t use up enough time so in the end there were no “split-screen” scenes in the film.

            In the end I felt that the filming was really fun because I was with two of my friends.  Although the recommended time on the course outline was 1 minute to 3 minutes, I felt the need to go over because of the song I chose to use.  I didn’t want to leave a bit of the song out or else the film would seem awkward.  The songs I used were “By My Side” and “I Choose Happiness” by David Choi.  During the filming process, I had to go through two cameras, and in order to get the high angle shots, I stretched my tripod and held it up as high as it was needed.  When we usually see short films or videos, there would usually be credits at the end of the video, so I decided to make credits at the end of my video along with some bloopers or moments that was caught during the filming process.  

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