Michael's Gridlock Excursions

    For this assignment I decided to pick the most dangerous sport I could think of, and to make a highlight montage of a professional in that sport. In my search I stumbled upon Jess Lockwood, the youngest champion in Professional Bull Riding history, and decided to make a video dedicated to him. I thought that it was important to not only illustrate the successes that Lockwood has had as a bull rider, but also the fact that bull riding is an incredibly dangerous sport no matter who's participating. As always, enjoy! Jess Lockwood Montage from Mike Macleay on Vimeo .

    For this assignment, I decided to spoil the worst movie I could possibly think of. The reason why I wanted to spoil something that wasn't worth watching twice (in my opinion) was to ensure that the chance of someone being upset that a movie was spoiled for them was as close to zero as possible. And thus, I decided to do a quick 30 second summary of a short film called Theevan: a film created by  Thilakanathan Studios, that was Directed, Produced,Written, Designed, and Animated by Danan  Thilakanathan himself. I've only included maybe the first 10 or so minutes of the film in my summary as well - mainly because the following 20 minutes of the film make no sense whatsoever. Enjoy. Theevan in a Nutshell from Mike Macleay on Vimeo .

    For this assignment, I failed to find a pinpoint definition to a 'crack' video. Doing some research on Youtube, I found a mix of two things: First, videos of movie scenes being synced to music or dialogue from other movies for stylistic effect, and the second and more abundant kind of video were of movies being synced to music or dialogue for comedic effect - with nearly all of all of these using TV static to cut between its sequences (similar to the TV series Robot Chicken). Wanting to try something new, I decided to do a little bit of both, and as such I took a horror movie - 28 Days Later - and synced it to lighthearted music that didn't fit the scene at all. When working on the finishing touches of this video I had actually discovered that my idea wasn't too original, as other users on Youtube had actually done the same thing with other horror movies. Nonetheless, I was satisfied with how the final product came out. Enjoy - Not recommended for the faint o...

     Seeing this assignment gave me a great idea to utilize a song that's been stuck in my head for the past few days, and the opportunity to play around with one of my favorite movies; Using iMovie, I put together 3 different scenes from the movie Cloud Atlas, and synced it to play with a song called Delta by C2C, a band consisting of 4 French DJ's.     It seems disjointed without seeing the movie and understanding the context of the scenes, but it's still entertaining to watch nonetheless. Enjoy!