One of those nights

Well, this has been a less than productive weekend so far. But that’s to be expected when you tend to spend the week going back and forth to school. Anyways, I decided to take on a small personal project that is turning into a much larger project the further I get into it. I’m working on making a motion (or kinetic) typography video using After Effects. That’s all I’ll say about it for now, but hopefully it will turn into something pretty cool.

I have otherwise been maintaining a rather uneventful life. Every now and then hang out with some friends, new and old, but mostly go to school then come home. On a lighter note, my xbox has been fixed. It’s nice to have a working xbox again, though I don’t play all the time I did find myself missing some Call of Duty.

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Higher Education

Here I am sitting in my Stellar Astronomy class, not paying attention once again. I am taking a grand total of 5 classes this semester and this is the only lower level. Needless to say I feel like all the freshmen here are sucking out some of my intelligence. On the plus side, my professor is a fan of Douglas Adams. As the semester moves on it seems that I have more and more to do. cbd products It’s only Tuesday and it’s turned into a long ass week. I just keep going because I really want to graduate in May. Normally I hope to add something cool or funny in a post, but right now I’m fresh out.

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Learn something new

Well, a lot of people say that they try to learn something new everyday. I must say that with the advent of the internet that it has become much easier for one to research how to do something on their own. Today I decided to take on a fairly easy task, learn how to make an animated GIF from a short video clip. With the newer versions of Photoshop it is actually really simple, as long as you can put your video in AVI format. Of course, now that I know how to make these there will probably more stupid things to come.

Crawford

Update: I made another one, this one does a decent job of looping.

Kitty

And one more.

Head pinching

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What to do…

Well, I’ve been sitting here thinking. That is probably not a good thing, but it still happens none the less. Anyways, since I’m coming up on my college graduation I need to figure out what to do next. I’m pretty confident that graduate school is not the route for me. So that means I need to find a job. Now luckily I have a few months before I graduate so I have time to look around. But I definitely need to flesh out my resume, specifically I need to create some more professional looking videos. The camera I own isn’t even near HD, but right now I have a camera from the school which shoots much higher definition. I’m thinking I need to get some personal use out of this camera before I turn it in, but am still working on how I’m going to do it. I know not a lot of people read this blog, if any at all, but if anybody has any suggestions for some short demo reel shots that will be effective.

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Been a while

So it’s been a while since I’ve written a post. I’ve been keeping very busy with school. This really has been my busiest semester, which is funny since it is also my last one. I’m going to try to be better about posting, but it’s going to be a busy next couple of months. On a lighter note, I found this funny video today.

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Doing that thing…

Well, I know I haven’t been updating the site as regularly as I’d like. Things have been fairly busy for me here. School is getting into full swing so that’s taking up a lot of my time. Luckily I’m graduating in May so this is the last semester I have to do. Beyond that it’s just rough trying to keep up with life. My National Guard unit seems to have issues with changing the schedule and giving only a few days notice. This has caused some issues because I’m supposed to be in three different places next weekend. I’m hoping that isn’t going to be regular for the rest of this semester.

Over the course of the semester I will be adding some new videos that will come from my classes, should be fun.

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School

Well, due to my weird schedule and those crazy holidays today was my second day of classes. So even though I started last Thursday and it is now late Tuesday, I haven’t been to two of my classes yet. Tomorrow I get to attend my Live Studio Production class, not really sure what to expect but it should be fun. So far nothing exciting has happened.

Tonight we are headed to some trivia at a Mexican restaurant, I always enjoy trying to answer the stupid questions they come up with. I don’t normally get them right, but I try.

I haven’t made too many updates to the website in the past few days. Part of this comes from the fact that I don’t have a whole bunch of time and the other reason is because I haven’t had anything new to say. This doesn’t mean I’m done with the site, just having to let my brain rest. You know how that is, if you let your brain not think about something for a while you’ll come up with a pretty good idea.

Pretty soon I’ll be working on some videos for my Video Production II class, this means I’ll be using a Canon XH-A1. I haven’t used one before, but I’ve heard many good things about it so I’m excited. Well, that’s about all I have.

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Last First

Well, I tried to post this earlier but the server was acting pretty funny. By funny I mean it didn’t want to work. Anyways, today was the first day of the semester for me. This is a particularly exciting semester because I’m taking some pretty cool classes and also it is the last semester of my undergrad career.

Now the downside is I have to make sure I don’t have to fall behind in anything. Something tells me I’m going to keep pretty busy this weekend. I’m running two websites myself plus attempting to start setting up websites for clients, I’m continuing to do funerals with the Guard, I’m starting to hear back about freelance camera work and what not, and have I mentioned that I’m taking 16 credit hours this semester?

I will now leave you with a picture that sums up the weather around here.

Pretty snow

It's pretty

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Another update…

So a lot of you have been asking me what I do here at Scott Productions, what is my goal, how do I make stuff, what is the meaning of life? Ok, actually I haven’t been fielding any questions at all, but I am making progress.

Over the past couple of days I’ve made a few  additions to the site. First off let me direct you to my Web Design page where you can see a service I am now currently offering. Like many other things, there is still a lot of work to be done but I’m glad to have this page up with some descriptions. I will hopefully have a pricing page up sometime tomorrow.

Secondly, I have added a Photography page with a photo album of pictures I’ve taken. This page tends to fall into a category all its own. I found a plugin that displays a decent looking album, though I feel that there must be something better out there. Of course I had no idea what it looked like until I uploaded photos for the album. It is interesting going through the thousands of pictures I’ve taken and picking out just a few, but it was done.

Then I added a Contact page with a nice simple little form that people can fill out to send me messages. I figure the easier it is for a visitor to contact me, the better.

Those are the three biggest changes. There has been few things behind the scenes that I’ve been messing with and of course you should always check back for updates. I’m trying to keep my site from being too static. It shall be fun.

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New Ideas

Well, in the past week I’ve had more than one job ideas pass in front of me. Unfortunately ideas don’t pay as well as offers do up front. In fact one of them involved a fairly large investment on my part (though it would be a fun adventure) and the other doesn’t involve so much of a financial investment but definitely a time investment. In the end you can’t complain too much about making a little extra money on the side.

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