The Abridged Perspective

Experimenting with Typography

2011-11-01T16:58:00.001-07:00

My first typography that I made for straight 5 hours. While composing this, I found myself unable to stop, let alone take a small break. Animating text is a lot more exciting than I thought it would be. Hopefully this skill will help me lead on to more useful things in my film career (perhaps for title sequences or making PSA's). Incidentally, I really like the Mulan soundtrack.

Senior March 2012 (my first sucessful live performance)

2011-10-29T09:16:00.001-07:00

Shooting live performances, other known as broadcasting, is completely different from shooting a film. Timing is key in a live show because you can never ask for another take if you missed something. That is why it is important to set up many cameras to cover up all the screw ups (cough my shaking hands cough). It was tough rushing my cameramen to suddenly understand the concepts of video composition and getting all the equipment in the first place, but through sheer determination and heavy amounts of editing, this spawned:

Homecoming 2010

2011-10-01T19:37:00.000-07:00

made this video a while ago. getting ready for this year's homecoming! except now, the new and less shitier me has learned not to over expose everything.

Hard Work

2011-09-03T11:15:00.000-07:00

My friend's eagle scout project that he asked me to document.

final projects for tisch

2011-08-13T21:56:00.000-07:00

a narrative and a music video. both for some reason deal with generation gaps.

collaboration

2011-08-13T10:48:00.000-07:00

had 4 hours to create this. 4 filmmakers. 4 music producers. the theme was beginnings. we got a flip camera, and it was a one shot film (only one take allowed).

-first hour
introduced ourselves (didn't know anyone)
agreed on a plot
calculated beats in the shot.
exchanged phone numbers with music kids
bought props (went to k-mart to buy baby stuff. register lady looked at us weirdly).
-second hour
composed the shot
shot the film. this consisted of me squatting and living like a 1 year old.
lots of sweat
lots of laughter
-third hour
act in another group's one shot film
-fourth hour
edit. this was extremely easy. all we had to do was mash the music and video together. just like making a sandwich.

FINAL PRODUCT.

i enjoyed the rush that we felt while making this. got my creative adrenaline pumping. DRUGS.

oh btw this is another one shot film i shot on the first week.

uh oh

2011-08-13T10:36:00.000-07:00

some of my videos have vanished, due to the deactivation of one of my video accounts. don't panic. i know these are dark times, but if we cooperate, we can get through this...TOGETHER!

Pop's 2011 Documentary

2011-02-15T23:22:00.000-08:00

the best part of this musical production is that there are no adults. straight up passion from students at my high school. I present the 2011 Documentary on Pops.

over 5 hours of footage
editing time: 12 hours

homefront

2011-01-05T19:37:00.000-08:00

i am blessed (and spoiled) in this beautiful area that i inhabit.

shot yesterday on January 4, 2010 with my canon 500d and partially edited with after effects.
music was inspired by this video, but these music sequences are repeated in my other songs due to my lack of music creativity*

**hint** someone make music for me **

leaves

2010-11-11T21:26:00.001-08:00

fall is here!

Leaves from CVHS Video Production on Vimeo.

montage

2010-11-11T02:04:00.000-08:00

"Cinematic montage (French for "putting together") is the juxtaposing, colliding, overlapping.or sequencing of multiple images to evoke deep, holisticaly grasped meanings. A montage expresses the passage of time and the development of charactger by economically showing the change of seasons progression of a relationship, pursuit of a new skill, or physical transformation. Montage is particulary effective in revealing a protagonist's point of reckoning , in which an epiphany is achieved regarding one's priorities, values, and necessary course of action." - 101 Things I Learned in Film School

scarlet letter short from Philip Kim on Vimeo.

Propoganda Art

2010-11-11T01:59:00.001-08:00

This is when I was first starting to make videos when I entered high school. I used think I was on par with Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg because of this.

Propoganda Art from Philip Kim on Vimeo.

into the wild

2010-11-11T01:52:00.000-08:00

in a nutshell, i read a book, got inspired by the transcendentalism philosophy amidst this great city, took a piss and threw my phone in the HAN RIVER.

Yeram, Jona, and John shot this during winter 2010. I was trying to get a narration going on, but i realized that it didn't need one.

into the wild from CVHS Video Production on Vimeo.

Senior March

2010-10-28T20:52:00.001-07:00

the class of 11's last display of high school spirit. they took that into consideration.
filmed it all in a rush. after editing the video, i composed a song on garageband.

Senior March 2011 from CVHS Video Production on Vimeo.

Oreos

2010-10-19T18:39:00.001-07:00

How do you dunk em?

Oreo Dunking from CVHS Video Production on Vimeo.

The Little Naturalist

2010-09-19T09:26:00.001-07:00

A short film I made in one day.
Pre-production - 3 hours
Production - 2 hours
Post-Production - 5 hours\

beach and mud

2010-07-22T22:12:00.000-07:00

Jack Johnson - No Other Way
Fifa Sountrack 2010 - KARA

a day with cousins

2010-07-19T08:56:00.001-07:00

i realized that video blogging makes shopping trips a lot more fun. remind me to do this when i'm shopping with a girl.

smile

2010-06-27T04:39:00.000-07:00

30 minutes - pre-production
2 hours - production
3 hours - post-production

staring brian jun. a music video for his computer class and yohan as the douche.
this video was impromtu in many ways.

nixon's life told by a 7 year old

2010-05-15T18:20:00.000-07:00

andrew desperately called my one night and asked if I could help him with his us history video. this was the 5th offer i got to do their ush project, but since he was a good friend helped him. in exchange he is going to act in one of my short films coming soon!

btw, babies are natural actors. they have no idea what's going on.

getting caught

2010-04-24T17:54:00.000-07:00

i learned something new today. In the life of filming you're going to get caught filming where you are not allowed to film. This is going to happen in many scenes i will want to shoot. why not ask for permission? well, i kinda have to learn this freaken language first, which is a whole different issue which i do not wish to divulge.

anyways, i spoke enough english to confuse to a manger to get away with filming at his food korean market. I just wanted to show to my American friends, the kinds of foods koreans eat... geez.

kat

2010-04-17T00:01:00.000-07:00

kat doesn't like MUN. so she plays instead. taken at my school in the english hall.

music

2010-04-14T23:11:00.000-07:00

collaboration is a beautiful word. in this video, yeram byun, jonathan park, john lee, and I worked together to create a song and a documentary called "Stranger Things". music is my favorite field in film. why? it adds two pieces of work together to form both an artistic audio and visual project.

this video won the Phoenix International Film Festival for Documentary! It was edited by my friend Yeram Byun and co-edited by me. little disappointed that my own documentary didn't place, but it's okay I learned a lot from this experience :)

"The Birth of Stranger Things"

sports

2010-04-14T18:45:00.000-07:00

i don't like filming sports. but i have to admit, it has taught and improved a lot of my editing abilities. i particularly enjoyed filming soccer and tennis.

remember the comfort women

2010-04-10T02:46:00.000-07:00

documentary I worked on.

saturday mornings

2010-02-19T05:02:00.000-08:00

one shot. 9:00 am. seoul, korea. oksu apartment.
friday morning. named saturday mornings after the nostalgia of having-to-do-nothing on this days
I would like the recognize my little brother daniel who was patient throughout my spontaneous, improvisational filming. He also sacrificed his leg in one of the scenes by tripping with wet feet. ♥

eating backwards

2010-01-26T14:03:00.000-08:00

life viewed backwards is rather... disgusting.

eating backwards from Philip Kim on Vimeo.

bookshelf

2010-01-21T05:44:00.000-08:00

bunch of japanese books in my grandpas office. i hope he never finds out i did this...

wasuuuuuuuuuppppppppp

2010-01-17T02:47:00.000-08:00

saying hi to my famari is always fun

escalating the situation

2009-12-22T07:08:00.000-08:00

11 guys. 1 movie. 7 tickets. 4 people left to do absolutely nothing for 2 and a half hours. woah! what is this. escalators that don't move!

3 hour detention!

2009-12-16T21:55:00.000-08:00

6 tardies = two 3 hour detentions in a row = tired ass

3 hours of detention from Philip Kim on Vimeo.

studying for finals

2009-12-16T21:53:00.000-08:00

this is our warm-up

studying for finals from Philip Kim on Vimeo.

chaos

2009-12-04T09:07:00.001-08:00

chaos at norebang. a norebang is basically a karaoke place where you can go dumb. dedicated to my cool friend Vivian who has to take SATs today :)

starbucks

2009-11-20T02:54:00.001-08:00

today i felt sad and angry, and i don't really know why... I guess it's all part of being a teenager. well anyways, making this really cheered me up.
ethan - amazing spanish buddy
vivian - hard to explain

david choi

2009-09-30T01:01:00.000-07:00

david has a live chat where he answers our questions. He answered many of mine, one of which inspired me.

Q: Do your parents approve of what you're doing for a living?
A: well, no. actually my parents were pissed and we had continual fights, and there was a period when we didn't talk to each other for years. They wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer or something, but i decided to take my own path in singing and writing songs.

Q: Were you scared when you chose your own path?
A: No, I knew that I should live my life with no regrets you know? etc...

I feel scared when i choose my own path sometimes. I'm unsure if it's the right decision, but i do know that when I really want to do something in the future, I'm gonna go full at it with all my effort and with no fears.

Thanks and bye david, nice chatting with you :)

my random life

2009-08-25T03:18:00.000-07:00

random clips forming a semi-functional video.

yea, I live on the 12th floor

2009-07-23T16:00:00.000-07:00

I thought I was going to miss the view of San Francisco when I left America, perhaps not. Today I spent half an hour just watching the little minions trying to get around in this vast world.

Here is a time lapse of the view from my apartment using pretty crummy software.

yea, I live on the 12th floor from Philip Kim on Vimeo.

Korea food for the Seoul (INTENDED PUN)

2009-07-20T03:49:00.000-07:00

I'm angry. (why Philip Kim?!?!) I lost some korean food footage due to a memory damage issue on my sony camera... well I got some of it after it crashed so here are the LEFTOVERS. hahaha **cue in the audience's hysterical laughter**

....

**laughter switches to crying and booing once finding out that only 2 kinds of foods were left in the remaining footage**

The first one here is plain old milk... yea. BUT NOT JUST ANY KIND OF MILK. Its Korean Milk!

Please excuse the music.

(Hannah Montana for the win!)

Ok, the next video takes place at my favorite restaurant of all time. It's an old shop which has been there for over 50 years. My mother always ate there when she was little before it became famous. In time, the restaurant grew in popularity until average folks like me heard of it. It's called shindandong DoBoKe. There is supposedly a secret sauce that only a grandma, who is also the creator of the restaurant, knows (she's still alive and I want here autograph!). The food is really spicy and the heat of the smoke that it emits makes you sweat and want to drink 50 million gallons of water (unfortunately they only give you a pot of water).

All videos taken on Day 4

Glad to be an American?

2009-07-04T23:59:00.000-07:00

Whether you're patriotic or not, all people have a common interest. lights and explosions.
Happy Fouth of July or fireworks day :)

Harrison the most nationalistic man I know says that if you don't like this video, you're a terrorist. Also the fireworks display emotionally touched Jason (and he quietly cried in the dark).
Shot at San Ramon Central Park with my handy dandy sony piece of junk.

Cleaning Rooms

2009-07-01T21:18:00.000-07:00

Since summer started, our house has been a monstrous mess. Today, I decided to take initiative by cleaning four rooms. It's really strange that something as to cleaning rooms could be so intriguing when put into fast motion. Even stranger, I had a fun time cleaning rooms with my brothers while listening to Linkin Park and The Killers for 30 minutes.

First Blog Post!

2009-07-01T01:11:00.000-07:00

Hello viewers,
I'm so excited! The Abridged Perspective, is a blog that involves the concise moments of life though the videos in which I film with my tiny Sony camera. Despite my lack of fine equipment, I believe I can achieve far with Final Cut software and lots of creativity.

Let's admit it. Life as a movie would be terrible. No one would care to watch every action a person makes in life. Lot of it has to be cut down and edited into short moments so that viewers can avoid watching a 24 hour film only to find one spectacular scene that lasted 4 seconds. In this video, I quickly made a compilation of some defining scenes of my family that I managed to capture with my camera! Hmm, maybe you'll get the reference...

The Kims!