awwww yeahhh
We’re making videos again, so Buddy Guys is back! This one’s pretty local, so if people who live around us in Surrey/White Rock don’t like it, then we’re pretty much out of luck. So. That was smart of us.
Anyways, we’ve started making videos again! Yay! Please reblog this if you like it so we know if we should keep going :)
New Overshare!!! WE BACK, WE GLOBAL! I don’t know what that means.
But school is over, and Overshare is back! So Enjoy. And please share it on Facebook, Twitter, and reblog this post: I’m worried no one will watch this since it’s been two months, and I feel like the subject matter beyond the jokes is something we all deal with in a big way nowadays.
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This afternoon I decided to just go ahead and finish up a short film that we shot on a whim this February. 1.5 hours turned into 7 (editing is the one thing in life I can do with no sense of time, laziness, or anything but joy, really) and here it is!
Jinx. It’s a short film that Shyam Valera and I wrote for an assignment in high school: make a film with no dialogue. So we did, but were exempt from handing it in because we were organizing our 3rd-annual city-wide film festival, so about a year later, when I was finally a video camera owner, we decided it was time to make something and this was just sitting there as a fun little idea.
So we shot during Olympic break (the Olympics took our school’s busses, so class was out) with help from Kevin Lam, Mannan Ahmed, and Dan Johnson. Total writing time ~2/3 hours, total shooting time ~8/9 hours, total editing/colour/visual effects (my 1st ever VFX shot is in there! See if you can catch it :D)/post time ~30 hours, I’d guess.
I hope everyone enjoys it— it’s not much, and there are definitely glaring flaws, but if you cracked a smile then I think it was a success. Let me know in the comments.
Thanks for watching!
-Kashif
PS I JUST WATCHED (half of) WILLOW SMITHS WHIP-MY-HAIR SONG AND I TOTALLY GET WHY IT’S A BIG DEAL NOW
I haven’t really been posting any of my FIFA coverage for The Province with Kyle Benning, but this latest video is probably the best one so far.
Enjoy!
We have a new video up for The Province’s Inside the 18!
Thanks to edit+upload troubles, this one’s pretty late in the game. But it’s still entertaining enough to watch, especially if you’re into FIFA at all!
One of my favourite directors, Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, Amores Perros, 21 Grams) and Nike just released a great, intense football/soccer ad to commemorate either FIFA or the fact that Kyle Benning and I are helping The Province cover the World Cup over the next 5-6 weeks. All signs point to the former.
I know next to nothing about soccer players and teams, so I’m handling video and shaping the comedy, while Kyle’s posting to the blog every day and in the sports section of The Province fairly often as well.
PS: I’m getting back into posting here a lot more over the next couple of days, having just come back from 3 weeks in the UK, where I had limited internet access, and, frankly, much more interesting things to do.
So the time has come to make me a nice big announcement. Starting at the end of this month, and working right through Summer ‘09, mkpmedia and I will be heavy into production on our first webseries, a 5-part comedic show called “School Daze”. Visit the site, makingschooldaze.blogspot.com, to stay up to date and follow along our unpredictable journeys through this.
This is going to be a real test of, well, everything - workflow, technology, creative and technical skill, business, marketing - I’m hoping all goes well and we can really learn a lot of lessons through this, and be in stronger and more confident place when we start our future slate of content.
Enjoy,
-Kashif
