After two weeks and 8,335 photos, my first tilt-shift attempt came to fruition. Initially thinking of doing something like this anyway, my plans were cemented when I received an email from UCLA asking if I was interested in making a video about “What UCLA means to you!” Taking the not-so-obvious-but-totally-awesome-non-literal-interpretation-of-the-question route, I figured I could blend the two ideas together, and wrap it all up with a Wooden bow on top to add some Bruin legitimacy. To be honest, working within the contest guidelines was exactly what I needed, it gave me a deadline and time limit (though I didn’t exactly stick to the royalty free music aspect, the song was too good, so we will see if that bites me later.) But after some snags in post-processing, and many nights running my poor computer nonstop, I feel like I came up with something unique and goofy, and if they don’t like it well they don’t have style right?