Poem

This is not posted because it's a professionally done video, as it's quite obviously not.  I simply shot it with my Kodak Playsport, for the explicit purpose of making a visual for assisting a poem I wrote for my final portfolio, in the course "Rap, Rock, and Poetry" (a humanities class) at NEIT.  It does the job necessary for the project.  Beside that, my wife likes it. So there.

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The Royal Patience of Knick-Knacks and Curiosities

by Shawn Hare

She's flat and black, with a red pagoda.

She has Pepsi® in her eyes.

He's large and gold, holding tablets of stone,

Two elephants by his side.

Visions of glass, blue ceramic, and brass,

Stone, wood, ink and shell as well.

The soft, giant eye looks out from on high,

'Fore pineapple on the shelf.

Silent Napoleon awaits the button,

Venus is trapped in a can.

Four alien pods stand vigil beside,

Robot with human in hand.

They sit and wait; they wait for the princess,

They wait for when she comes 'round.

She tickles them all with feather duster,

And then puts them all back down.

Lighting Exercises

Part of my quarter final exam in the course FIELD SHOOTING/LIGHTING; exhibiting four types of lighting: 3D Modeling Lighting, Dramatic Lighting, Flat Lighting, Silhouette Lighting.

The actors are Sean Murphy, and a basket of ivy.

I chose to add a little interest to it by including the solo portion of the song "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" by Pink Floyd, but rather than simply posting it, I chose to attempt to do it Bobby McFerrin style, though this is nowhere near what such a master as Bobby can do.  If I had more time to work on it, and finesse it a bit, and if I actually knew how to read music (this is simply done by memory and guessing at how it might go -- you can tell I'm way off on parts with the "organ" parts) it might be be a bit more listenable.  But anyway ...

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Corporate Logo Project

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This is not anything official for The Discovery Channel.  It's the logo I chose to animate and perform the listed requirements for my Motion Graphics (After Effects) class.  I had to look for a flat globe of the Earth, make it spherical, add clouds (3 layers), rotate the planet to the left; rotate the clouds at different intervals, to the right; place the (hypothetical) names in a particular sequence; show a graph; and roll some credits -- all of these at specified times, making sure not to encroach upon the rights of the logo.

Kinetic Type Project

This is a Kinetic Type project that I did in my Motion Graphics (After Effects) class a few weeks ago, and simply forgot to post, as I was just so busy with other stuff.  It's my first attempt at it, but I did spend a bit of time on it.  The comments my instructor posted to it were "Awesome. Simply awesome!"

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Animated Logo

My new animated logo for "Hare in the Moon Productions".  I created this in After Effects.  The images of the bunny and the moon are not my own.  I'm in the midst of working it out with the copyright owners to use them.

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I keep vacillating between "Hare in the Moon" or "Shawn Hare" Productions, for the name of my (potential) production company.

Continuity Project

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This is my submission for an exercise in Digital Non-Linear Editing -- a Continuity Project.  Continuity being, keeping a flow of action, in the form of a Match Frame Continuity, where there are many angles of an action or series of actions, along with appropriately arranged sound effects, to create the illusion that it's all happening in real time (I came up with the idea, I am also the actor, and Rachel Rodriguez does the camera work); and in the form of a Compressed Time Continuity, whereas events that would normally take place over a longer period of time, basically have all the steps in between removed so that the main point of the story moves along quicker (I, Eddy Alvarez, and Mishitaashen Conley came up with the idea, Eddy is the actor, and I did the camera work).

New Logo

I created a new logo (at top of the blog). The rabbit drawing isn't mine, but I'm trying to find the artist and perhaps buy the rights to it from him/her.  It was on an Etsy website but I can't find it anymore, for some reason.  But anyway, I can always make my own bunny drawing to fit into the scene.  This is actually an animated logo, and I'll post it as soon as it's finished and passed into my Motion Graphics (After Effects) class at NEIT.  The name of the company, "Hare in the Moon Productions", I'm going to register pronto!

Finals for the second quarter are next week. So after that, I'll be posting my final projects, which will include the animated logo, along with an EFP (Electronic Field Production) news story that I and my partner (for this project) Sean Murphy worked on together.

The only thing that's really killing me is Algebra.  I want to learn it simply because it's learnable, and a challenge, but I don't really need a whole heck of a lot of it.  I do tend to ask myself questions such as "I wonder how many people can fit into Rhode Island, in a 3-foot x 3-foot square" and that sort of thing, which I could reach in a roundabout way, using regular math, but there's probably a much shorter way of doing it with Algebra.  Be that as it may, I'll be glad when that class is over and done with, and I hope I don't need to do any other kind of math class ... other than the "Business Math" which is required. But I've got a feeling that's going to be basic stuff, just with greater principles, for the business world.