Looking back

This course has greatly improved my skills as both an artist and a technical filmmaker. The best skill I have gained from this semester has to be the ability to know the image I am going for and to be able to translate that from idea to reality. Before this class i never really sat down and thought about what type of vision and style I was going for, and I saw my style adapt and change while learning how to realize certain tendencies I had behind the camera. This class has more greatly affected my eye for images as an art form than anything else I have done previously and I am very grateful to have been a part of it.

Reel

Colter Levi Longshore | Spring 2010 Reel from Colter Longshore on Vimeo.

Artist Statement

All I ask for from my art and my audience, is a constant evaluation of life. To see things not only as they are but as the could be, both for better or worse. I've learned that no matter how unique your problems are that somebody out there has crossed that bridge before you and exploring that commonality is what I would like my art to achieve. To go where many have gone before but with such daring and adventure, it would seem like I was delving into virgin lands. So many artists drive themselves wild over the idea of how to create their art, and in some ways I'm not after that. I feel like the best art has already been made, eons before us, and it is the job of the artist, I feel, to uncover that art from the fogs of time and thought. I relate my work as archaeology of aesthetics in a way. I guess to simplify it I would say that my work is more of a discovery and less of a creation.

Inspiring Short Video

A Midsomer Knight's Dream

The Painter

Pain is Gain

The past two exercises have taught me just how quickly one has to think on his or her feet to be able to pull off a quality last minute production, almost so quick it can't even be measured. for my next project there is gonna have to be a little more planning time and thinking through of what type of images i want to collect in order to properly and convincingly convey my message and story. However as with most art, planning can only help guide you to your goal and a lot of what i will be capturing will be last minute ideas and images that come to me at the place and time of the shoot. Over and out.

My Image Style

I love close-ups of central characters shot from below their head to make them seem looming and mountainous combined with the obscuring of some of their features to add mistique. I also like a lot of movement and ambiguity in larger scenes, it gives the audience a sense of what is going on without micromanaging their viewing experience.

Movies are pretty cool.

Braveheart
Godfather
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Life Aquatic
Star Trek
V For Vendetta
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again