Darryl Lai

For my New Media Visualization class, our final project was to demonstrate what we learned in the course through video. I produced two pieces for the class, both loosely connected. I spent a couple days shooting and editing these pieces, although I will admit I procrastinated quite a bit.

Unlike my work at University Web Communications, I was able to use copyright music. I probably used this assignment more to use certain music than anything; I think I want to direct a music video in the future (like Evan did).

Special thanks go to Alexa and Lyndsay for helping me out on this; they were too kind in helping me with this project.

Some neat facts:

• I recorded the unzipping sound of my pants separately by standing in front of the microphone at crotch level; you can hear it in the first video in the bathroom shot.
• Cooking the egg was incredibly cheesy, but I think me leaning forwards in the second video takes the cheese cake for sure.
• If you look at my butt in the second video while I climb up the train, you can see that I am wearing monkey pajama pants under my jeans. So basically I’m acting like a monkey, while wearing monkey pajamas.

Video #1 – Morning Routine

Video #2 – Bike Ride

A while back near the end of September 2010, I had the opportunity to work up in Portland to cover OSU’s Rally in the Square downtown in Pioneer Square. Only recently was I able to use the footage for something tangible, but I am very happy with the result.

For my work with OSU Web Communications, I was asked to produce a short 30 second clip summarizing the event in spirit and in premise. This was to be used for the University’s Portland Business Roundtable address in Portland that happened on January 19th, 2011. To get an idea of the type of event this was, this was where many stakeholders of the university and Portland business leaders were in attendance. I was thrilled to be able to present a piece of my work to this group.

A couple of neat facts about the video:

• All of the audio was recorded on a small but extremely capable audio recorder known as the Zoom H1
• There is nothing like seeing so many people come together for an event like this, there was so much orange!
• The band is not the Oregon State marching band, rather they are a group of OSU alumni that used to be part of the band

This is the video in all it’s glory, I hope you do enjoy!

Recently I put together a two and half minute piece about Oregon State’s campus recycling effort during football games. I never knew before but the amount of trash and recycling that goes on during a normal home game is pretty amazing. We’re talking tons of trash and a lot of it can be recycled, which is exactly what Campus Recycling does.

In the video, footage was shot by Evan Gutt and myself. I edited the piece and created the graphics for the text points. Here are some things about this project worth noting:

• Getting up early to watch the Philomath High School football team clean up the stadium the next day is pretty neat, despite the sounds of it. There’s just so much trash leftover and the emptiness of the stadium really is different from when thousands of loud, often drunk, fans fill the stands.
• If you watch close enough in the video, you will see Tony the Tiger, if you blink you’ll miss him!
• If you’re wondering, those cans (mostly beer) do get recycled for deposit money. This time around OSU SIFE volunteered and helped get it donated to the Linn-Benton Food Share for a total of $331.

And without further adieu, the video:

Greetings!

Today’s update is a new story and video piece I worked on for Oregon State (truthfully its been up for a while now). You can read the story and watch the video over at the Powered by Orange website and see it displayed as one of the main running stories on the OSU main page (for the time being).

Here are some my impressions that I had of the whole deal:

1. The twins are really nice guys, really confident about their work and their futures. If we had more people like them in the job market, we wouldn’t have a huge unemployment problem ever!
2. To get a good idea of how talented these guys are, check out their winning entry to Oregon State’s Campus Moviefest 2010 here. Did I mention they won?
3. One of the cool stories they had about working at TBS was that the day that Conan O’ Brien visited TBS for his move to cable TV, Jeremy Peschka was one of the first to greet him! He found him hiding behind the door he was guarding, the life of an intern!
4. Interviewing these two twins once again put into perspective as to how amazing people can be, despite the odds. Can you imagine the tough competition these two faced from great schools with great film programs? Little ‘ol Oregon State is doing well!

Overall I really enjoyed talking with these guys, good luck to them in their endeavors!

Through some talented folks and students (especially Neha Neelwarne) at Oregon State University, a cool flashmob happened at the Beaver Community Fair a couple months ago. I was privileged enough to be taking photos at the event, so check out the photos!

The video for the event can be seen here too, but I can’t take the credit for that!