Andrew Von Lawrence Presents: Fruit Salad

Chop chop:

In a way, this is my first video to be made on an actual budget (about 8$ was spent on strawberries, kiwis and bananas). The title of the vid kind of says it all, but in case you are curious, it does in fact not contain some sort of deeper meaning or rich and important message. I say this because when I revealed the title of the skit to my 16-year-old sister, she philosophically asked me whether we are dealing with an "inner" fruit salad or just a plain old literal one. I unfortunately had to inform her that this particular salad was quite straight forward and unambiguous in its development and characteristics, but who knows, maybe I will get around to making a more David Lynchian version some time down the road.

Behind the scenes:

In order to make this video work, I needed to have both my hands available and ready to grab, squeeze and move different types of fruit and kitchen equipment at all times. Since I do not own a tripod and had no idea that my stepdad had an old one lying around at the time of shooting, this meant that I had to come up with some kind of homemade installation in order to position my camera in the angle that I needed. Suspending my brand new 550$ camera off of a kitchen roll-holder which was tied to small chair positioned on an upside down basket on top of my kitchen table ended being the solution that I went with, and as you can see in the video, it ended up working out perfectly well. I do not know why I did not take any pictures of this spectacular contraption, but rest assured that it was quite a wonder to behold. 

Changing editing software:

I initially started editing this skit in iMovie, but in the same way that it happened with my first video Mokaface, it did not take long before something stupid took place. Half way though the painfully long and repetitive process of cutting together all the short clips of me shredding different types of fruit into small pieces, iMovie suddenly decided to crash. Thankfully the footage did not disappear entirely this time around like it did with Mokaface, although all the editing I had done up to that point sadly did. iMovie then kept on crashing every time I tried to reopen the program, and after a few minutes of trying, I uninstalled the program and decided to try out Final Cut Pro instead. This program turned out to be much more professional and easy to handle than iMovie ever was, and re-editing the video only ended up taking about two hours, which is just about as much time as I had already spent editing in iMovie. Having to start all over again obviously sucked, but transitioning to Final Cut Pro and discovering how much better that program is almost makes up for it. 

You can find this video as well as a few others on my Youtube channel.