While I find myself involved with helping others with their various projects, I am overdue for creating current work. My goal for 2011 is to take the time, get into the studio, and make art!
Dramatic Interpretation of Robert Frost's 1920 poem "Fire and Ice" (2011):
VL: Multimedia Composition from Leslie Dickinson on Vimeo.
Multimedia Composition for the Visual Literacy course I am enrolled in via MUdirect. My video is a dramatic interpretation of Robert Frost’s classic 1920 poem, “Fire and Ice.” I shot simple footage of “fire” via matchsticks and “ice” via cubes in a clear glass using a Canon 5D Mark2 DSLR camera. The final product was complied, with video fx, and text added and animated using Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. The video has been color corrected to leave only the red/orange color to emphasize “fire” and a blue/steel color to emphasize “ice.” Audio is intended to be “low” and includes a background drone, natural sounds captured in camera of the match sticks lighting, dubbed in sound fx of ice cubes falling, and a sound track from a library my students use that includes a dramatic “thud” to cut graphics to. After listening to a YouTube recording of Robert Frost reading his poem (youtube.com/watch?v=_3vjU43kJ8U) I decided to make my video more dramatic through lengthier pauses and lack of spoken word. I have not used, nor followed, much of the punctuation from the original poem and only include a period at the very end of the video.
iPhone "Slice of Life" Photography (2010):
Photography taken using a FirstGen iPhone and ToyCamera App.
Professional Video Work - KMIZ-TV (2006-2009):
Salon Adair & Spa from Leslie Dickinson on Vimeo.
An advertisement I created during my time at KMIZ-TV (2006-2009) for a local salon. All text, animations, and color effects created in Final Cut Pro. Photography provided.
Tire Guy Animation from Leslie Dickinson on Vimeo.
Animation I created for a local tire company in Columbia MO during my time at KMIZ-TV. Never aired, but was fun to create! Animation created using Adobe After Effects.
Undergraduate Video Work - Columbia College (2001-2005):
An old project I dug out of the closet! from Leslie Dickinson on Vimeo.
I was cleaning out the closet in my studio and dug out this old video I created back when I was at Columbia College working on my Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (2001-2005). If I remember the work flow correctly, I was using a mini-VHS camcorder and using a Dazzle box to capture the footage. I was editing the footage in Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. I chose to color the footage by exporting sequences into Photoshop and hand coloring individual frames. Needless to say, we didn't have After Effects! Music is the 1999 hit by Eiffel 65 "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" from the album Europop.
