My Summer Job

A few weeks ago I was directed by a friend to look into a job posting by Parks Canada. They were calling for about 30 university students to become videographers for the summer. I applied right away and was accepted into the second part of the application process in which I had to make a 1 minute video explaining why I was the right person for this Canada Parks Job.

Here is a link the the video that I produced:

Kyler's Parks Canada Application Video

It was sort of interesting that what inspired me most in making that application video was watching other people's application videos. Most peoples video's were extremely focused on the Parks Canada Job at hand. There was no way that I could do any better in that field, so I instead went ahead with selling myself as exactly what I am, which is an animation student, a photographer and an artists.

I will admit the video is a little bit dramatic, but apparently it worked. I got the job with Parks Canada and will spend the summer shooting video in and around the Banff National Park.

There are still many little details to work out but, at least I am certain now this summer will be entirely too interesting.

Kyler

Self Portrait

Making this self portrait started out as a grand complicated process. I asked almost everybody I know about me. I got all sorts of responses. There was a lot of stuff going on. I was thinking about trying to explain things about myself to others. Trying to express things they didn't know about.

But, as the process of creating this animation went on, it got cut down and simplified, and this is what is left.

I feel it is accurate and right.

Thanks to everyone who helped shape this portrait, even if your influence isn't obvious, it was essential.

I'm particularly proud of this project because I created all of content in in, including all music and sound effects. Generally I usually end up using some free bit of content from the net, however this time I was able to do it all myself.

Kyler Kelly

StoryBoard Final : the MicroSculptor

Here is my final project for my storyboarding class.

This class has been immensely useful to me. I think I have been quite limited by my ability to make stories to animate. I had a lot of difficulty coming up with stories by storyboarding them. This is likely because I have a very spacial mind. When I think of a scene, it is 3d dimensional. I think about the volumes and spaces I want to work with. However, since I'm not very imaginative, this lead to bland scenes because I can't flesh them out quickly in my mind.

However in this class I learned how to write a standard film script. They have very particular rules and conventions that keep everything extremely straight forward. Because of this, I can be more creative in thinking out the story without giving any thought to the actual scene and how it will look and fit together.

Between the script and storyboard, I than have room to design characters, the scenery and props.

By breaking up the whole process into more manageable pieces, the output is at a completely different level.

Kyler

The Cumbersome Diamond

This was another storyboard that I had to make for my class. We were given the script and had to design everything else. I recorded my own voice for the dialogue, so please be nice, it is embarrassing enough.

Hopefully it actually makes sense when you haven't seen anything else. I have seen this so many times, and I have seen so many other versions of it that I think I might be a little immune to reading it's legibility.

Kyler

Exactly Precisely Where I am

It is likely very common among people to think about where and how they fit in amongst everything else. If you are to do it critically, leaning heavily on the concrete evidence at hand, and not upon things you have been told it is quite easy to come to the conclusion that most things are pretty insignificant.

Your one person on a planet with seven billion other people. You have one life of most likely less than a hundred years, in comparison to a universe's 13 billion years. Logic dictates that most things are insignificant.

Your born into the world knowing nothing and as you grow up you get formed into a person who does know things and is self aware. Being self aware means that you recognize yourself in a mirror and that you know that you aren't other people and that other people aren't you. Now this self awareness is quite a big accomplishment for things that developed out of evolution.

But there is an awareness that is even more important than self awareness. Once humanity discovered the idea of evolution, a new depth of understanding was breached. A species had recognized the processes that had brought it about.

And, if you follow my keen interest in the topic of memetics, this theory also raises awareness a step further. Ideas of discovered their origins as well.

There is, behind each of us, a history which weaves back all the way back to the very beginning of the universe. It is indisputable that in fact, if it were possible, you could track yourself back right to the beginning of universe, and find the energy that came out of the big bang and was converted into matter.

Recognize the fact that your history goes on behind you, and recognize that it will go on in front of you. Your currently just a little section of the thread, made of energy, matter and ideas. It you understand evolution, physics, memetic and as much about everything as you can you will see this thread strung out through time with more clarity.

And if you don't want to feel insignificant, recognize the fact that you are at the growing end of the thread shooting out into the void, deciding on the direction. And for the moment your in control of that thread, but once your gone others will be taking charge of it genetically and memetically. It is in fact your opportunity to help those in your future see the thread as well. To make them learn, understand and recognize the things that explain everything.

You only make yourself more significant by allowing yourself a more accurate, critical and well founded understanding of humanity, the universe and everything else.

Kyler

Balloon StoryBoard

This was a little exercise we had to do for our Story Boarding class. We were given the basic premise of a man in a balloon over the jungle, looking through binoculars an than being surprised. I was really inspired once I decided on the design of the balloon. It is 3 old balloons sewn together and than 2 baskets suspended from them.

Kyler

No Posts For a While

I think there is a cycle to this blog, and in that cycle will be some dry spells. I think it has to do with the fact that life generally comes in waves. Every few month your general reality changes, new classes, new people, new projects, and at the end of all of those waves, once things are about to get new again, I guess there isn't too much analysis, or thinking going on. I think the last month was sort of like that, I just didn't have much to say, just stuff to do.

I got one big thing finished up today, and next week is reading week, so I get the feeling that I will have a moment to recoup, my brain will get settled again, and the posts will restart.

Or at least I suspect that.

Kyler