Mentor essay
For my mentor essay I chose Daniel cloud Campos. My reason for choosing him is because he has written and directed some of my favorite music videos. I hope to do a majority of my work with music videos because music is a second passion of mine. Campos is very small time so finding info on him personally has proven a difficult task. However, I am determined to do my essay on him so I decided I will be focusing on 5 of his pieces that I love most. I will do a small breakdown of the shorts and explain what I learned from them and how I aspire to learn more about the techniques he uses.
Let’s start with a recent short by Mr. Campos. “I’ll Hold”. This short is one of my favorites. It is simple and to the point. The short is about a …show more content…
This piece really took me by surprise. It starts off relatively simple. Mid-twenties man looking for a new apartment. He is shown around the place, falling in love with it almost at first sight. Then the Real-estate agent gives him some time to look around while he goes back to his car to grab some information for the man. As the character looks around the place he places his and on a metal column near the center of the room. He then pauses as he notices that is audibly louder than the rest of his movements as he pats up and down the column. This same scene unfolds with objects all around the home, from the walls to the windows. Every sound is different for the separate objects. Towards the end the character works up a full song playing from the walls. The whole place becomes an instrument! Then you realize that this 550 a month studio is a box and its inner workings is the music. I smiled when this epiphany hit me, because at the beginning I thought he would physically find a music box. I find this type of innovation in all of his video shorts. They are very to the point and …show more content…
It starts off in the middle of a battle, which seems to me as a fight between good and evil. The main heroin is fresh faced and young as she looks out around the scene around her, she feels like this fight is not worth it. The song has a line saying “There is a time and place to die and this ain’t it”. The character makes her way towards the antagonist who is the leader of the bad side. Her fellow army men protect her as she walks towards him. He is all that she has in her sights. My favorite scene is when she finally makes it to him and gets held back by two men. Normally when an action like this happens in a film it is timed horribly. However, this scene breaks the norm and each action taken by the characters is timed very realistically. She acts out this part very lovely with excellent passion, then she breaks free and instead of “Winning” the battle by ending the leader’s life, she reaches out as he raises his club to beat her and she hugs him. This part in the story is incredibly touching and relates to my generation very well. Excellent writing, in my opinion. The moment she hugs him the whole colour scheme changes and the sky goes from a foggy gloom to a beautiful sunset. The light fills the area and reflects of the relieved smiles of the fighters. The imagery is magnificent in this piece every colour seems thought
For my mentor essay I chose Daniel cloud Campos. My reason for choosing him is because he has written and directed some of my favorite music videos. I hope to do a majority of my work with music videos because music is a second passion of mine. Campos is very small time so finding info on him personally has proven a difficult task. However, I am determined to do my essay on him so I decided I will be focusing on 5 of his pieces that I love most. I will do a small breakdown of the shorts and explain what I learned from them and how I aspire to learn more about the techniques he uses.
Let’s start with a recent short by Mr. Campos. “I’ll Hold”. This short is one of my favorites. It is simple and to the point. The short is about a …show more content…
This piece really took me by surprise. It starts off relatively simple. Mid-twenties man looking for a new apartment. He is shown around the place, falling in love with it almost at first sight. Then the Real-estate agent gives him some time to look around while he goes back to his car to grab some information for the man. As the character looks around the place he places his and on a metal column near the center of the room. He then pauses as he notices that is audibly louder than the rest of his movements as he pats up and down the column. This same scene unfolds with objects all around the home, from the walls to the windows. Every sound is different for the separate objects. Towards the end the character works up a full song playing from the walls. The whole place becomes an instrument! Then you realize that this 550 a month studio is a box and its inner workings is the music. I smiled when this epiphany hit me, because at the beginning I thought he would physically find a music box. I find this type of innovation in all of his video shorts. They are very to the point and …show more content…
It starts off in the middle of a battle, which seems to me as a fight between good and evil. The main heroin is fresh faced and young as she looks out around the scene around her, she feels like this fight is not worth it. The song has a line saying “There is a time and place to die and this ain’t it”. The character makes her way towards the antagonist who is the leader of the bad side. Her fellow army men protect her as she walks towards him. He is all that she has in her sights. My favorite scene is when she finally makes it to him and gets held back by two men. Normally when an action like this happens in a film it is timed horribly. However, this scene breaks the norm and each action taken by the characters is timed very realistically. She acts out this part very lovely with excellent passion, then she breaks free and instead of “Winning” the battle by ending the leader’s life, she reaches out as he raises his club to beat her and she hugs him. This part in the story is incredibly touching and relates to my generation very well. Excellent writing, in my opinion. The moment she hugs him the whole colour scheme changes and the sky goes from a foggy gloom to a beautiful sunset. The light fills the area and reflects of the relieved smiles of the fighters. The imagery is magnificent in this piece every colour seems thought