Making sure not to spill paint on the camera...

1. Tubes of watercolor paint
2. Panning shot of watercolor palette
3. Paint pigment diffusing in water dropplet
4. Drawing a tree
5. Painting red on wet paper

To create my 5x5 I used my sister's Nikon DSLR camera. It took great high-def video.  I was planning to edit it in the YouTube video editor, but it proved to be easier to just edit it in Windows Movie Maker and then upload it to YouTube.  Filming took longer than anticipated, mostly because it took awhile to set up shots.  I don't have my watercolors just lying about like that, so I spent awhile putting them into the right position.
I like the way my 5x5 turned out, although I kind of wish I could have added some music to the background.
Perhaps for our next independent video project, we should do some kind of short silent film.  When we did the 20second project, several groups (including my own) turned their films into silent films (mainly because of horrible audio).  It would be really cool to do black and white silent films. Maybe we could get into small groups spend some time filming in class or something and we could then all go and edit it ourselves.  We could make the story be however we wanted, and it would be a really cool way to see how different a story could be with the same footage but different editing.

Also another thing,  not only has this blog been visited by Germany (3 times in fact...I wonder if it is the same person....) but also the Netherlands. Interesting, no?