James Cavallaro
Artist Statement
A
place that I grew up all of my life and where my mom still lives today is in
Raritan New Jersey. But before and after
grade school I would also spend a lot of time over my great-grandparents when
my mom and dad had to go to work. My educational history includes two years in
community college and as of now a semester at Rutgers University. Some of my
hobbies include hiking and spending lots of time out doors, but also spend
quite a bit of time at the gym working out and trying to better my self
athletically. Most of the time when I am lifting weights of hiking I do listen
to music and I think my taste in music is to large to say exactly which on has
influenced me more than another. Two events that I’ve found impactful was the
death of my great grandpa because I learned so much from him when I was
younger, and I was young when he passed away, it was hard to believe and very
confusing at such a young age.
At
first I wanted to focus on a lot more then I actually got too. But what I did
focus on was family specifically my mom and dad and how they impacted my life
and me. They taught me life lessons that I will keep for the rest of my life. I
focused on things I did when I was younger, the friends I had, and what frustrated
and confused me as a child. I noticed that after doing the necessary editing
and adding certain effects I started to bring about new ideas that I wanted to
include. At first I wanted to include things such as my views on religion, the
environment, and current political and societal problems but the realized that
was nothing I truly wanted to do. Instead I introduced voice overs of famous
celebrities and people that have inspired me and often speak about moral and
current issues, to help people better understand events and tragedies that
effect many of us.
My
overall vision for the film was to be a auto biography type film about myself
and what has molded me into the person that I am today. But what I had planned
to do and what I did were quite different as a started filming I realized that
I didn’t have enough time as I expected, and which became my main concern that
I wont be able to make the time requirement. I used I movie to edit the entire
project because it was the only editing software I had readily available. I
used a Gopro Hero 2 and two other digital cameras to record all of the shots.
With each camera recording at the same time I was about to use only one of the
audios recorded on cameras and match it us with the video of the other two cameras.
I often myself watch a lot of motivational videos and speeches by inspirational
individuals, so when I started filming I was thinking about things that
inspired me and made me into the person I am today. While working on the
project I began to think about my audience and what they would be thinking
while watching it. That’s when I had the idea for the ending I filmed on “What
I want people to take away from this video”. I didn’t say as much as I would
have liked so I began overlapping the voices of those people that inspired me
and showed me how to achieve success in hopes that the audience would
understand where I was going with the film. I don’t necessarily think that my
film plays any role in a larger contemporary movement and instead its to inform
people that what they are experiencing in life is just the experience and that
we must take what were given and go with the flow cause it was what was laid
out for us.
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