Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been editing together behind the scenes interviews with various crew members of Elliot Spark, a VFS final project. My interview is now online, and in it I talk about my role on the film and what attracted me to it. I’d be grateful if you gave it a watch.
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This is the short film I wrote, edited and co-produced back in term 1 of the VFS curriculum.
Summary:
Carl, who recently broke up with his girlfriend, is feeling down. Carl’s best friend, John, decides to set him up on a blind date with one of his friends. This will be a night to remember…
A VFS term 1 short film written, edited and co-produced by Andrew Wilson.
This is a great day for YouTubers, and a long time coming, at that. YouTube has finally unlocked the 15 minute video cap… with a catch. As long as your YouTube channel has NO strikes against it, meaning you haven’t been caught uploading any copyrighted material, you’re free to upload videos at any length with file sizes of up to 20GB! Previously, this feature was only available to members of the YouTube partner program, which allows select few users to display ads and monetize off their video views. If you haven’t gotten the message yet, give it time. YouTube is slowly rolling out this new feature, and hasn’t really officially announced it yet.
I noticed this message on the upload page of both my short film and daily vlog accounts today, and I’m ecstatic! A big problem with many of my vlogs is that I had to struggle to keep them under 15 minutes, without cutting out anything important and fun. Now, if my video is longer, even by just a few seconds, I have no need to worry!
Last night, at the last possible moment, me and a friend were approached by another VFS student to play extras in a VFS production. Hoping we didn’t have to “act”, and wanting to become involved in another production, we agreed. What we didn’t expect was a really elaborate shoot in a “library”, complete with about 10 other extras, dolly shots, a whole production crew and, most surprising of all, the realization that we, as extras, had to actually act, rather than stand in the background.
I was put in the scene with two other extras, both from VFS’s acting campus, to play typical college jocks. Yes, internet. Skinny, short little me playing a jock for a glorious 15 seconds of screen time. Unlike myself, the other two actors were truly versed in the ins and outs of jockidum.
Despite my lack of experience (and confidence… heh heh…) we pulled the scene off pretty well, and my friend assured that I looked very “hollywood”. It was a fun and hilarious experience, and I have it all in yesterday’s vlog:
Well hello, internet! I haven’t blogged in a while, although I have been vlogging furiously. If you haven’t discovered them yet, I’ve been posting daily videos of my time at Vancouver Film School for the past couple months. It’s an amazing school. I’m having a great time, I’m meeting awesome people, and I’m learning a lot.
If you want daily insight into my life at VFS, you should check out my daily vlog channel. There I post a video EVERY DAY about my experiences at VFS and beyond. I’d like to keep this going a long as possible, maybe even for the rest of my life, provided that vlogging is still the “cool” and “hip” thing to do in a few decades. 
If you could help support me by watching my vlogs and giving feedback, it would mean the world to me. Thanks. 
Here’s one of my favourite vlogs:
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