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Final Update

Being in Oregon, we are surrounded by a very cultured part of the country and with that we have the pleasure of experiencing beautiful things every day. Ashland is a city that’s known for its promotion of the arts and is one of the “best small arts towns in America”. With over thirty galleries around, Ashland has so much to offer.

Cynthia Wolf, the owner of Adelante! Gallery, expressed how nice it would be for art lovers to not only experience and own a beautiful piece of art, but also to be able to meet and learn a little bit about the artists. Building off that idea we decided to create a series of short videos about the dozens of talented artists whose work are sold at the gallery. Through these videos we hope that viewers are able to make a personal connection with the artist and gain more interest in their works.

As these videos are created, they will eventually be aired on the gallery’s website and social media sites to promote their work. I have finished one artist’s featurette this semester and I will continue through the summer to create more. My goal by the end of this project is to have a gallery introduction, a fun gallery conclusion, and featurettes for five more of the artists.

Here is the link where you can view Kevin Christman’s featurette:

https://youtu.be/cl9bwh4mrGo

Have a great summer and stay tuned for more!

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This is a short video that I created to give you a look into the perspective of Kevin Christman. He is a local artist in Talent, Oregon and some of his beaut...

Week 8

Hey everyone, I hope you are getting to enjoy these sunny days! I’m feeling a bit better this week and have been working hard to get ready to graduate Cum Laude! It’s crunch time and I am ready to go!

This week I have been spending a lot of time working in Audition to sweeten audio. I have interviews from Terry Frosini, Cynthia Wolf, Kevin Christman, and Suzanne Etienne that I am working through. I’ve been learning how to clean sound from “room tone” to create a clearer voice over. I’ve been using equalizers and dynamics processing to create better frequencies.

I also got the chance to meet with Cynthia Wolf in her studio and at her cottage for some great interviews and B-roll. I’ll be using these cuts in the featurettes I will be making that focus on Cynthia, the gallery, and her collaborations with Terry Frosini.

Kevin Christman has been so wonderful to work with and I was able to get some of my best footage and interviews with him. I wanted to be sure that he was my main focus for this term because he gave me so much to work with. I have filmed him creating a bronze metal casting, painting at a ZepDrix concert, and sculpting in his studio.He works in so many interesting mediums that it is tough to just highlight them.

I was originally going to make these featurettes little one minute segments, but with all of this good information it is unfolding into something much larger. I still have some cutting to do with his interviews to remove some spacing, but his video will probably end up being over 5 minutes. Here is a segment of what I have been working on... enjoy!

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Week 7

Hello again! This has been quite the week for me. My sister-in-law blessed us with a beautiful baby boy, Owen. Then the next day I was at the doctor for Acute Sinusitis and asthma attacks. My oxygen levels were in the high 80′s (Which can cause brain damage) and I could only walk a few feet before losing my breath. Luckily I have battled through it and continued to do the work that I could.

I had the pleasure of getting an interview and some narration from Terry Frosini on Monday. He just got back from a long vacation where he was working on an art project about motorcycles. He draws is inspiration from the things that he enjoys. “The Family” of elephants came from a time when he was in the Peace Corps. in Africa and “Blues Brothers” came to him when he was enjoying some old Saturday Night Live skits.

My main goal this week has been to finish working on Kevin Christman’s featurette. I also met with Cynthia at her cottage to get some voice-over for the featurette that introduces Adelante! Gallery. We want people to know about the history of the gallery before we get into some of her artists.

Until next week!

Best, Lori

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Week 6

This week have been very busy cutting footage to clean out all of the shots that I do not need. This has cleaned up my hard drive a little bit and is making it a lot easier to find the footage that I want to use. Before I could start really diving into post production I had to go through all of the footage with the person I am creating these for.

Cynthia Wolf is a photographer and owner of Adelante! Gallery in downtown Ashland, Oregon. She has a great eye for art and a dream to spread joy through the beautiful artwork in her gallery. This whole project was her idea and I really want to create something that she can cherish forever. She is reaching retirement age and would like her family to see all of the work she has accomplished.

It took us many days to go through the high resolution images that she had taken, all of my footage, and all of our audio interviews. We also discussed the soundtrack because copyright can be messy to meddle with. After a few motivation pow wows we are on the same page and confident that we are ready to start plugging this all into Adobe Premiere to play!

Above is an image of Kevin Christman as Cynthia and I interviewed him at his studio in Talent, Oregon. He is kind, talented, and an inspiration to work for. With his featurette, I hope that I can share his personality and art with the world and his clients.

Week 5-

This week has been quite the busy one for me. Cynthia, my boss, went on a trip to Texas and California so I have been managing the gallery on my own all week long. Being around all of this beautiful art gives me inspiration for my featurettes, but it has consumed my time. During my slow work hours I have been sorting through audio clips and footage to decide the best takes to use and to make sure they are all labeled. I started with over 250 GB of footage, audio clips, and images on my hard drive, so I had plenty to go through.

Now that I have everything completely organized, I can review the chosen clips with Cynthia once she returns home next Wednesday. As my client and producer, she gets the final say on all of the footage and she has been building the script that I am using to create the short videos. Without a finalized script it has been a little difficult to picture the final product, but as I go through the footage I see the makings of some great 60 second artist introductions.

While I’ve had spare time this week I have been working in Adobe After Effects to create a production logo for my introduction and to create the Adelante! Gallery introduction graphics. Video effects software is still very new to me, so I have been reading and watching tutorials to get a better understanding of how After Effects works. I was able to obtain a graphic called “Solar Flare”, which was so fun to play with that I used it in my SPC Films production logo. It took me many hours, but you can see what I have created so far.

I still need to record narration with Terry Frosini and film an interview with Cynthia when they get home, but other than that I believe I am about done with principle photography. My next goal is to get together with Cynthia to get the final okay on the footage and then I can start loading it all into Adobe Premiere.

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Week 4 Update

This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Suzanne Etienne. I needed more voice-over for her segment and needed to get it fast because she is about to leave for London. After recording, I went straight to the gallery and began working on the audio in Adobe Audition. Here is a glimpse of myself at the gallery as I work to remove background noise from her interview. There was a great deal of echo, but I am working to removing it. I spent three hours sweetening the sound, then my computer crashed and I lost all the work I had done. Since I’ve gone through it once before, it shouldn’t be too difficult to get back what I had.

Week 3 Update

This weekend I had the pleasure of filming the event, A Taste of Ashland, at the Adelante! Gallery. I’m filming this for the featurettes that focus on the gallery and some of the great things that go on there. I just got the footage loaded onto my external hard drive and am sitting down to go through them before I film “Ark Walk” at the gallery tonight from 5-8pm. Stop by for a cameo and to enjoy some great food, company, and art!

Week 1 Update

Cynthia and I met with Mountain High Aviation LLC at Willow Witt Ranch. Nancy Smith and her friend, Eileen, were painting on the property. We got a GoPro 4 on a drone and got some great aerial shots of what they were painting. Here is a short clip as we brought the drone back down. Enjoy!

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I had the pleasure of filming and photographing Adelante! Gallery artist, Kevin Christman, as he painted live on a 6’ x 5’ canvas at the Ashland Armory. The crowd watched as he used acrylics to paint Jimmy Page while ZepDrix, a Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Hendrix tribute band, rocked out on stage. It was a fun experience and I was able to obtain a lot of great footage. Here is a little montage of the images that were shot. Enjoy!

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EMDA 350 Project Pitch

My project for this term is to finish creating and editing a series of short featurettes for Adelante! Gallery where I currently intern. There will be about seven segments that are each 1-3 minutes in length. The intro and outro will briefly discuss the gallery, its message, and its goals. The body of this series will be about the artists who are showcased in the gallery and the inspiration for their work. This is my capstone and it will be aired in the gallery, on their social media sites, and on the sites of these nationally known artists.

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Of all of my achievements so far, the most significant accomplishment would be working as a Production Assistant on the set of Wild while it was in production in Ashland. This was my first large budget feature film and also my first paid gig. I worked straight from 4 am until 7 pm. I did was I was told and I was always on task, which truly does get noticed. Because of this, I was the only PA that got to work directly with Reese and the cast. I have built a great deal of rapport with the people who hire me, so the harder I work the better the work I get.

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