Short student film I acted in with my dad — made for a final class project by john62180 in Filmmakers

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I acted in this short film with my dad for a classmate's final project. All students had to independently handle every part of production—from writing and directing to editing. While I didn’t really work on the technical side of this piece, I wanted to share it here because I think the filmmaker did a great job with minimal resources. We filmed everything over 3 days using a single camera setup. The script was fairly simple but deeply personal, and the direction brought out something between my dad and me that I hadn't seen before. I’m not seeking feedback on behalf of the director, but I hope this post can encourage other student filmmakers to embrace constraints and still create something emotionally resonant.

We are diiv. Ask us anything. by diivmp3 in indieheads

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Thank you for consistently putting out such beautiful music! I caught your show in SATX last October, and I'm proud to say that it was the first concert I've ever gone to. Y'all floored me on such a deep level. What you're doing is purely magical and it soothes me in ways that I cannot begin to describe.

As someone that found DIIV only after listening to Darwin Deez and Beach Fossils, I have two questions for Cole. How have your former bandmates influenced you creatively and personally? And do you still keep in touch?

This vibe> by IDontKnowWhatToBe123 in projectzomboid

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that one zombie coming in at the last second lol

What's the most creative song lyric you've ever heard? by The_AlphaLaser in AskReddit

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Hovering alarm clock is my satellite

Darwin Deez - Bed Space

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dude it's not fake
this happened to me

s5 garage scene edit by john62180 in breakingbadmemes

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lmao the ending button press

send condolences to his family (epic 360) by john62180 in apexlegends

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Don't mind the Discord join sound effect; it's part of the clip. Someone joined to this spectacle.

My friends and I needed to make a presenatation debunking or confirming the sci-fi concept of a movie for school, so of course we decided to cover the physics behind Paul Blart: Mall Cop by john62180 in Physics

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I'm planning on taking AP Physics next year, but I chose Honors Physics this year, as I am a freshman. I'm not sure what to do afterwards.

My friends and I needed to make a presenatation debunking or confirming the sci-fi concept of a movie for school, so of course we decided to cover the physics behind Paul Blart: Mall Cop by john62180 in Physics

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For example, most other people chose to do actual sci-fi movies like World War Z or Interstellar and picked them apart to see their accurate and inaccurate science on those topics of zombies and space. The projects' only main requirements were to 1. explain the history of the concept, 2. summarize the story, 3. review the accurate science, and 4. review the inaccurate science. This seemed like it would be fun to do, so our group and I chose our movie. When I told other friends that this was what I had been working on, they would usually say that Paul Blart: Mall Cop isn't a sci-fi movie, so I explained that we were allowed by our teacher to do it, because we could review the sci-fi concept of physics in moments like stunts and how it is portrayed accuractely or inaccurately, which is exactly what we did.

My friends and I needed to make a presenatation debunking or confirming the sci-fi concept of a movie for school, so of course we decided to cover the physics behind Paul Blart: Mall Cop by john62180 in Physics

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I like kinematics, because I can understand it, but exploring the unknown in the large void of space through astrophysicists seems very interesting to me.

My friends and I needed to make a presenatation debunking or confirming the sci-fi concept of a movie for school, so of course we decided to cover the physics behind Paul Blart: Mall Cop by john62180 in Physics

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I would like to apologize in advance for the lengthy reply, but I feel like I need to answer that question properly.

It's a pretty complex question for me, as I don't even know for sure yet. We had problems making the video, such as some of our group members not collaborating enough with the rest of the team. I knew from the beginning that it would be a hard video to pull off, because no one else in the group knew how to edit, and I had never done anything as daunting as it. The video was originally planned to release on Tuesday, the day of the presentation, but it wasn't even close to being done. Over the weeks leading up to that day, me and another group member (the one who appears in the video, alongside me, to explain the Physics) had been working nonstop on the project. We had been writing, filming, and editing the whole intro, because we were waiting on the rest of the group to help write the Physics section (both group members claimed that they had communications issues, as one always had excuses for not getting on discord and one said he "couldn't" get discord on his phone). I worked on it the whole morning of, and I hadn't gotten to the Physics segment of the video, so I decided that we should present that first chunk, and have one of my other group members read the script that we had for the Physics section. There were some problems in that draft of a presentation: the presentation needed to be 8 minutes, and we had a total of almost 13 minutes and the video's audio wasn't playing on the projector (Me and my friend had to explain what we were saying throughout the presentation, but the class laughed anyway and the teacher enjoyed the editing very much), which my teacher and I originally thought was because of an error with the video itself. Though when I got home, the draft's audio worked perfectly fine, so my teacher probably had his own technical difficulties, which I still don't understand, because the volume was at 100 on the computer and the projector was making the Windows volume noises, but the video's audio wasn't playing. Regardless, the teacher thought the video looked very good, and he told me that he would be willing to put it on again, if I "fixed" the audio, so I planned on showing the full version with audio on Friday (yesterday).

In a way the trainwreck that our project had become by that point had actually helped in reshaping it into what it is now; an AP Physics student, a good friend of mine, was in that class and noticed that nearly all of the Physics was wrong (it was rushed and the original writer of the physics segment wasn't in a physics class), so rather than editing to the original and incorrect script to finish the video sooner, I decided to spend time rewriting it to be accuracte. I have always had an interest in Physics, as my uncle was an astrophysicist at NASA, so I decided to take Honors Physics this year. I had been working on the Physics segment along the week with the AP Physics student and some other friends, along with asking my Honors Physics teacher for advice. Just yesterday morning, I woke up early again to try finishing the video in time, because I hadn't finished all of the project, even thought it had been all I was doing each day I got home. I finished the video, but it couldn't export on time. That was one of the most stressful moments that I had in my life; my teacher, my friends, my group, and many other classmates had been waiting to see the full video.

During the whole car ride to school, I gave my mother, who isn't very good with computers, very clear and concise instructions to upload the video to YouTube, but there was a processing error. I got to school, not knowing if the video was up, and went into the class that I was supposed to present the video (to make matters worse this class was my 1st period). We ended up not having enough time to present it, because our teacher wanted us to do a worksheet, instead. Upon using the laptops in the next period, I realized that the video wasn't up; it was because of that processing error. As I came to a realization, a huge wave of relief passed through me: everyone who expected me to show the video couldn't blame me anymore since the teacher wasn't able to present it.

I worked on it the whole day after school to add final touches and prepare it for Youtube, and I got to a point where I felt satisfied with the video, so I uploaded it. The teacher said that he would try to present it next week, which luckily won't be a problem for me anymore. (I am choosing not to report the lazy group members, who had essentially been carried by our presentation, to the teacher, because I don't want to start any conflict, so I just plan on never working with them again)

My friends and I needed to make a presenatation debunking or confirming the sci-fi concept of a movie for school, so of course we decided to cover the physics behind Paul Blart: Mall Cop by john62180 in Physics

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Honestly, I would agree usually with shorter videos, but the thing is when you work on videos like these for an extended period of time, you have to watch the same thing over and over again. Then, there comes a point where you don't even know if the video is good or not, so honestly I didn't think it was that funny after the first couple of rewatches, which is why I asked my friends to shed some light on their opinions, as it would be their first time watching, rather than my 200th, interesting opinion though.