Emotion Video

         The video I made evolved from my preliminary idea of anxiety, now its probably more deranged or suspense. I tried to create anxiety for the viewer with quick cuts, and very specific shots to fit my horror trailer theme music. The story is simple and straight forward. This video may have fell short of my original idea, but the concept and composition improved drastically while following my concept. I feel I have a made something good with the possibility of being great if I learn Adobe After Effects more proficiently.



<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/183468297" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="https://vimeo.com/183468297">Horror Trailer</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user56407834">Stanley Zebroski</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>


https://vimeo.com/183468297

Emotion Project - Anxiety

    For this project I did anxiety as my emotion. I took the approach of trying to focus on the details of what anxiety would look like. I have close up shots of the little details such as; nail biting, foot tapping, rubbing of the scalp and the clock ticking away. I was also thinking of using a loop of a heart beat sound to emphasize the emotion, and cutting to a black screen and having some parts flicker to make the viewer uncomfortable while watching.


https://vimeo.com/183468297

Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

      For the music video analysis I choose Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." The reason I wanted to use this video is because it utilizes all the components visually and also conceptually for a music video. The video is a narrative in the sense of MJ talking about a fling he may or may not have had with a woman, and now he supposedly has a child. There is a detective type character following him around throughout the video. Michael Jackson also arrives at the ladies window as to say nice try, but it didn't happen.
     The video is also a performance piece throughout with patented Michael Jackson dance moves and his voice. But the performance is further enhance through the stepping on to lit up sidewalk panels through the rhythm of the song.
    "Billie Jean" is also conceptual with the tying in of all these elements to convey the song it starts off with a detective looking for the superstar than MJ flips a coin into a homeless mans coin jar and it lights up and the homeless then looks like he's ready for the red carpet in a suit. This to me is is to show Michael Jackson as a good man who uplifts people around him higher than they previously were. This seems to get the view to buy into the song when he said, "Billie Jean is not my lover
She's just a girl who claims that I am the one, But the kid is not my son" the visual concepts drives the point Michael Jackson's a good guy and if he said he's not his son it has to be true.
    Visually the video almost never breaks the rule of thirds unless there are lines behind him to create depth to the shot to provide an interesting point of view so the straight on shots never get boring especially with him dancing. All the shot follow the rhythm of the song in some sense, whether it is the cat at the very beginning, or the detective creeping, or MJ himself. The color and lighting enhance the video at every segment.  This video is a perfect example of how powerful music video's can be when given the same amount of attention and effort (,and budget) as a movie.