Editing and posting Video online

I'm editing stuff for myself. Well, for myself and others, but still...editing on my own.

And why is that you ask? Well, guess what? Working in Chicago, there's no plethora of work available for you - you're either a successful actor or not - agent or no. Now, there's varying levels of success, but as someone who's strength is not in pure acting, I need to do what a lot of beginner level stuntmen have done and are doing - promote myself, and produce my own videos and content.

I'm not gonna say that it's necessarily easy, but I've had help - some good people to show me the ropes and the basics, make suggestions and offer critique - I almost feel like it's too easy - that is, until I try uploading videos on different places online. Youtube worked well. Almost excessively well I want to say - but that's google for you - they run a good show. Facebook? You'd think that facebook would be as valuable, if not more valuable with the contacts and networking implicit to it. But no, for whatever reasons, various people, including myself are having a dickens of a time uploading stuff there. Not sure if it's technical incompatibility, some doofus move on my part, or the fact that a site that big wants to limit storage space and bandwidth. Generally, it seems like users are having a harder time working with larger files - and with raw AVIs, that's what a lot of people are going with - mostly, because it makes a HUGE difference in the video quality.

Still...maybe have to do some compressing. I just hope it doesn't end up looking like the low qual version on youtube.

Nonetheless, I just finished putting together a demo clip from footage compiled at asylum stunts.

Hope you like it!

The Beginning

I've been training stunts for about...5 years now, and I've had some work, some breaks, and luckily never broken anything. Now I'm working towards getting work consistantly, having stunts be a career more than a hobby, and gettign more chances to do these things that I love.

I find myself with one major problem. What I often find is that I have no control over the look of what I do - someone else is often shooting, and I don't necessarily like how action turns out when someone who's not familiar with action shoots it. So often you get music video hodge-podge or Bourne-style disorienting flashes. What I want to start working towards is creating some work on my own - expanding my skills in the area of action direction.

Don't get me wrong - I still want to better my stuntman self, but I can't help but want to improve the look of these hits, falls and strikes that I've worked so hard to develop.

Innate of this - I put together some choreography with the good people at Asylum Stunts and figured out some angles. Then, the good people of Lazy Brown Productions helped me edit up the material. Here's what came out. Watch in high quality!