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I creative produced a music video last year. For my friend's band. I've worked in film for years now, and music videos are still my favorite thing to shoot. Very happy to have crossed "make a music video" off my bucket list. I've worked on videos for different companies, but this was different--this one was all me & my friends. We shot the video in 12 hours and it turned out great!
I wore a lot of hats for it, and designed a lot of sets (many that got scrapped from the video, but hey thats how it go sometimes). It's a 6 minute long instrumental so we got a lot of footage!
I love these pics cos that's the director, Jae holding that light. On small indie shoots like this everyone wears multiple hats! This scene was shot in our friend's barn :)
I'm leaving a link to the finished video here, plz check it out and lemme kno what you think!
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The first season of the show is here! A new episode every week! Please support!
Hey everyone! This is the first episode of my first ever web series! Please like, share, comment & subscribe! All of your support is appreciated so much! Thank you!
Not sure why my brain decided my colour test was actually a music video. 😅
Teaser for my new web series!
My new short film comes out tomorrow and I'm so excited! You can watch it on YouTube by searching "XING AJ LOVELACE" thank you for the support!
So I don't really post on here but I kind of wanted to talk about the new TMNT show and film as I just recently finished it and it seems I'm starting to get back into the Turtles. So to start, when I first heard about the show I was excited about it as hey we're getting new TMNT content and u can NEVER have too much content of something u love! When I watched the first few episodes at the time I was very, I guess, put off by it. I grew up with the '03 turtles and my fav has and forever will be Leonardo. So in the 2018 show, I was shocked to find out Leo was not the fearless leader that we knew and suppose to love and the fact that he turned into Mikey 2.0. I love Mikey but Leo's suppose to be the cool, calm, and collected Turtle, not the one that runs off and does whatever he wants! I was also shocked to see how more mature Mikey was than Leo! Besides that, the portrayal of Splinter was terrible as he had no interest for his sons and the roll of Donnie became similar to Raph as he was kind of an a-hole and sarcastic all the time. I will also say April was a bit much. I mean definitely love the girl power and go get it attitude but at times my little bro and I would be like whoa she crazy. I will say it was interesting to see Raph step up to that leader roll and we could all see how much Raph cared for his family. I mean if ur already a die hard TMNT fan then u know Raph cares for his family deeply but often has a difficult time showing it. In this case it was different to see that his feelings weren't hidden and he was very open with his brothers.
Anyway, going to today, I recently started to rewatch the '03 Turtles on Paramount + and decided I would watch all of the TMNT content that came out over the last 30 years so that also meant 2018. I only saw the first few episodes at the time and hadn't watched all of it until now which I have to say I'm glad I did watch all of it as it was really good. I think my favorite is the last few episodes of season 2 as it felt more like the Turtles I grew up with and all of the content that we have seen of the TMNT so far. The film was also really good as it felt more like redemption for Leo considered how he has acted during the two seasons. While I couldn't help about think of all the issues that I stated above I'm kind of glad we got exposed to it bc things definitely did change. With Splinter he became a lot more caring to his sons, himself, and for the Hamato family as well. April was still April but I definitely love her way more than the 2012 April. With the guys, I have learned to love all of them even though they are very different from what I'm used and what Kevin and Peter created but it's good that's different. We as a society have to accept that there's going to be change and yeah u may not like it but it's going to happen. I'm also not saying everybody has to like it but just remember that it's there and others may like it so don't hate and be mean about it. I know I'm in a few FB TMNT groups and the new TMNT definitely gets a lot of hate which is pretty sad. Overall this new series and film is very different but it was a good different and being a student filmmaker I can only hope that someday I will also be able to make my own TMNT content preferably live action as we don't have much TMNT content through there and it would be fun to try it out. I can't help but feel like I have to end with something about Leonardo but I'm glad Ben Schwartz got to voice and bring this new Leo to life on this show. I can only hope Rise will get another season as clearly they definitely deserve it! Anyway sorry for the long post but ✌ & cowabunga!
I want to say thanks to everyone at the Post New York Alliance for all your work creating more opportunities for storytellers and creatives from diverse backgrounds. Thanks again. I appreciate the PNYA featuring me in their "Spotlight of the Month." @postnewyorkalliance #film #tv #writer #screenwriter #artist #postproduction #storyteller #poccreatives
BIOGRAPHY Abdul Ndadi is a Harlem-born writer/artist of Ghanaian descent living in the Bronx. He studied Animation at the School of Visual Arts and started in the industry as a storyboard artist and character designer for independent film productions. His animated short Orisha's Journey, based on various African folktales, premiered in Japan at Hiroshima's animation festival and played last year at Annecy's special screening of African animation. Wanting to expand the types of stories he'd like to tell, Abdul transitioned into live-action after joining the Made in NY Post-production training program and now works as a post-production assistant for scripted film and television. Abdul is looking to apply all the knowledge he gains from helping the industry professionals he's fortunate enough to work with to create new stories of his own.
I had the pleasure meeting director Ari Aster (Midsommar) at the Korean Film Festival where he presented "Save the Green Planet" which was Awesome btw! Also, here are a few other events feat: Robert Eggers (The Lighthouse), Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), Ladj Ly (Les misérables 2019 Cannes jury prize winner) @ghettofilmschool , Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), Antonio Banderas (Pain & Glory), etc. #midsommar #thelighthouse #theirishman #film #filmmaker #storytelling #lesmiserables #taxidriver #pedroalmodovar #savethegreenplanet #cinema #writing https://www.instagram.com/p/B6b-ifjgH_8/?igshid=1nfskel4jcqb8
I attended the Independent Filmmaker Project's IFP Week and had the pleasure of meeting "Harriet" Tubman film director Kasi Lemmons! I also ran into "Super Size Me" (1&2) director Morgan Spurlock and attened talks featuring Alice Wu (Saving Face), Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians), and writer Teresa Hsiao (Fresh off the Boat/Family Guy) among others. Definitely a great experience. #ifp #film #indie #filmmaker #writer #director #story #representationmatters @kasi_lemmons @morganspurlocknyc @jonmchu #harriettubman #crazyrichasians #freshoftheboat #supersizeme https://www.instagram.com/p/B3U9T9nDccy/?igshid=r191y3v0qjyz
Had the pleasure of attending the Director's talk at Tribeca Film Festival featuring Guillermo del Toro (2nd time meeting him since Cannes!) and hosted by Alec Baldwin. It was awesome! #guillermodeltoro #alecbaldwin #tribeca #filmmaker #actor #film #monstermovies (at Tribeca Film Festival) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwt_Bn-FmBb/?igshid=jqgwtxoakv93