Keone and Mari <3

Love Lost-  The Temper Trap

So in love with this song right now.

This is What You Do-Bethel Music

Hillsong United- Live in Miami

Jesus Culture Band- Live, Awakening Conference Chicago 2011

brianpuspos:

PRESENTING my 1st video of the 2012. RISE AND SHINE. Wake up and make moves! Made to be greater!!!

Featuring the KUBSKOUTZ!

Reblog. Retweet. Repost. If you like what you see. I’d love your support

-Brian Puspos

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xavieruniversecity:

In this second installment of the series titled “The Meeting”, we focused on Mari.  It’s not so much of a predecessor of the first short film PLAY or a sequel, but more along the lines of another “episode” focusing on another character.  There is a huge contrast from the first and second episode.  The first was more fun, fast and up beat; it kept you on your toes.  As for the second, the music had a mellow tone to the film, so the pace of the film is much slower than the first.  That was the challenge, how do you keep your audience attention from beginning to end with the pace being much slower?

Well, Mari had a great story to begin with.  We later teamed up to make sure we told the story in a way people can understand, as well as being impactful. In general, the story is a women struggling with how she sees herself by societies standards, and finds herself more at peace by just being her true self.  Originally the story was the “insecure” Mari looking in the mirror for the whole film, and in the mirror we see the “true” Mari dancing as a reflection while the “insecure” Mari watches.  Having the whole choreography as only a reflection seems so two dimensional, and that would be the easy route just to just split screen “insecure” Mari on the right side of the screen and the “true” Mari on the Left side with special fx.  I personally felt seeing two “Mari’s” with the “twin effect” for the whole piece will be too distracting to the choreography; I wanted to maintain the integrity of the dance because that conveyed the most emotion.  Again this is a Dance-short, so I felt the dance is a character of its own and the dancing had to be displayed to its full potential to show its full message.  So I decided to scratch that original plan and instead of seeing a reflection of Mari, I designed a shot where we go inside of the mirror as if we go into the world of the “true” Mari. Going into the mirror will allow parallelism with the “insecure” mari, and enabled shooting the choreography to be more flexible. This allowed the choreography to carry the film.

Visually I had to keep the audience attention.  With a slower paced song, I had to focus on emotions with visuals.  I then used color tones to interpret the story i.e. “color grading.”  When we first see the “true” Mari, I wanted to represent hope.  Notice that the color tone is more golden than some of the opening shots of the film.  That golden look allowed a brighter look.  Bright comes from light.  Light represents hope, which I wanted to depict the “true” Mari as.  As we later see the “insecure” Mari transform into her TRUE self, the ending becomes really brighter; that just symbolizes the big leap into the light.  This golden color tone was inspired by the movie DRIVE.  It’s totally a film that inspired me with cinematography.  Well, in this film, I noticed that the golden moments in the film were when the main character was happy.  It’s a dark film, but when its golden, its when the main character is in love.  I wanted to bring the Golden look to this film as well.  I also used a tactic used from the LXD.  They backlit the windows to accentuates the lines of the choreography.  The windows weren’t heavily exposed in the raw footage, so I brought out the exposure during post-production. 

Before

AFTER

You can do so much with a shot, and enhance it to give more artistic value.  When looking at the shots, I hope it doesn’t just SHOW you something, but make you FEEL something.  I want to take the next step to have lighting, color grading, and compositing more substance to a scene.  This stuff does require a lot of labor.  Constructing a shot has to be well planned out and executed.  So to all my future working partners who want me to direct, all I say is give me TIME, and… FEED ME. Haha

Epilogue:

We find out after Mari leaves her house, she went somewhere to read. It leaves us right where the first epilogue ended: Keone sitting down. DUN DUN DUN. I’m hoping you are putting together the “pieces of the puzzle.” This should reveal what’s leading us to the final conclusion of the series.

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Raelene- 1D

Dang. Mastah team.

Keone and Mari-Don’t Stop the Music

movementlifestyle:

Meet PARRIS GOEBEL of New Zealand’s amazing REQUEST CREW!

She will be in town this week in LA and teaching TWO classes at mL Studio!

First class will be a pop-up class this WED at 5pm!
Second class will be this THURS at 5pm!

THURS schedule will be as follows:
500pm PARRIS GOEBEL
630pm JOHNNY ‘JBLAZE’ ERASME
800pm TUCKER BARKLEY

FRIDAY schedule will be as follows:
330pm Beg/INT tba
500pm JUN QUEMADO
630pm BRIAN PUSPOS

There will be NO mYoga class this Saturday [sorry guys]! However tomorrow TUES we will have an additional mYoga class at 7pm!