Blog assignment 1A

My name is Brian Recker and I am a visual creative learner.  This means that I tend to create and learn information based off of visual examples.  I am majoring in video production at Scripps Media Arts and Studies, and enjoy creating videos.  My specific creativity in video production is the editing aspect of it.  I enjoy creating the timeline for videos and putting shots in sequence to make a well edited video.  Chris Hedrick, who develops wedding videos and local documentaries, is someone I look up to significantly.  I had the opportunity to intern him and his company while in high school.  He taught me all there is to know about the process of creating videos.  He specializes in editing, and has won multiple Emmy's for his videography.  I look up to him, and consider him one of my mentors.  Here is an example of the work that he creates.  I had the opportunity to go on video shoots with him.  This is where I obtained creative ideas about how to choose certain shots to film, and how professionals interact with their customer.  Chris uses tension and release in his wedding videos through music.  In the link that I posted earlier, Chris adds a song that is familiar, but uses a climatic part of the song where it adds intensity through the repetition of the certain part, then the song calms back down making the wedding video go back to its familiar flow.  Along with the videography I was able to shadow and assist him in editing the videos afterwards, where he taught me shortcuts and creative was to edit and add special effects to the videos.  This helps attract audiences, and make the final video more appealing and professional.  A group that has influenced my creativity also is an amateur youtube group called, Balloon Shop.  They make funny videos that are also done in a professional way.  They attract a large audiences and come up with creative skits that are enjoying to watch.  The people in the group frequently uses text/subtext in their short skits.  For example, in one of their YouTube videos titles, Halo 3: I am the Masterchief.  They use the text of him playing the video game Halo 3 as the main character, Masterchief.  The subtext that they also imply is that he actually is the Masterchief in real life, and his friend physically treats him as the actual character through a double-entendre.  They take familiar thinAlong with Chris Hedrick and Balloon Shop, Lee Smith is an artist that has influence my creative process.  Lee Smith is a professional film editor, and has done major films such as, The Dark Knight and Inception.  These films have been so successful because of the editing that Lee Smith did.  He uses Active and Didactic themes.  He uses editing to tell the audience what to think in the movie Inception.  He makes the audience think about what inception is and about dreams, but he also uses active themes so the audience has to think for themselves about whether or not they are trapped in their own dreams.  These three artists and groups have influenced my creative process significantly visually.  The have helped shape the way that I think.