Video Production

The art of video production need not be explained about how much creativity is required.  I want to talk about some past projects I have had and a current project a couple of friends and me just started working on.  One main element that comes to my mind first is influences.  In any piece of work whether it be art, music, or video, one can recognize prior works that have influenced the newer work.  I'll analyze my works for example.  I am a huge Bam Margera fan; if you haven't heard of him, he's a professional skateboarder who has produced many videos and television shows throughout his career.  Certain elements he uses while making videos I find really cool.  He tends to get really "artsy," for lack of a better word, in his projects like videotaping the sky through the sunset over a course of a few hours, then in his video playing it in super-fast motion to make the scene look really cool.  He adds a lot of silent skateboarding with music in side-segments to side track the viewer in the middle of the plot of a story.  In my past videos I have videotaped traffic from the top of a garage tower over the course of an hour and played it in super-fast motion just like this.  I would add distortions to the color scheme and what-not as well to add extra "artsiness,"  and instead of adding skateboarding schemes I would add some of our free running scenes, which can be viewed in the last blog post.  I find certain influences to help give me the push I need to create new and cool aspects to add to my videos.  This is just one example of creativity in video production.