QUIETLY LOUD

A little bit of touch up on each characters and over-exaggeration on our boy band behavior produced a great 3 minutes and 30 seconds long music video. Having so many projects to work on at the same time, I could only spend 2 days on this one (including the editing process). Luckily, I was able to get some people to help out with the filming process, so it wasn’t too hard finishing it on time. I do notice some parts where I could’ve used some extra time though. Can you tell which parts I am talking about?

This is a little old now, but I am still going to post it. Not only because I love Will Ferrell with my passion, but because this commercial has some hilarious lines. I haven’t seen the movie “Semi-Pro” yet, but if you have seen it, what did you think of it? Let’s talk!

It hasn’t been too long since I got the title of “director”. So I will just start by posting this advertisement I’ve put together with clips that was either directed by me or with help of other interns at *NXL (definition provided on the bottom of this post). As you can see, I’m actually in some of these scenes…. Yes, that crazy Asian who screams in the bathroom is me.

For those of you who are wondering what this advertisement is for, I was trying to form a group of people who are interested in filming. After working on couple 3-minutes long films for NXL, I wanted to get more people involved. So I gathered few clips from all the projects I have done and created this interesting advertisement. It was shown on a Wednesday night at a youth church(NXL), during both Jr. high service and high school service and the reaction from kids and some adult volunteers was great.

The result? I cannot say it was very successful for the purpose I had. I mean, kids liked the video, we all had a kick out of it, and over 20 Jr. high kids signed up for the video team. But, there were hardly any high school kids who wanted to join the video team. Maybe it’s that “too cool for school” mentality? Maybe my videos just aren’t good enough yet? Or maybe it’s both?!?!

What are your thoughts on this advertisement?

*NXL - It stands for Next Level Youth. It is a youth church that belongs to Casey Treat’s ministry and I direct most of their film projects as an intern. For more info, visit www.nxlyouth.com or www. caseytreat.org.