Portfolio of
Aleksis Paraka
Photography
My favourite projects
I've made a lot of videos during these 4 years of study, but I can only call a select few of them, great. Great, in a sense that I wouldn't feel ashamed or embarrassed if I have to present them to to someone, hence why they're here.
All Videos
Pats Sev Ienaidnieks (CC)
Camera that changes the world
Spotless - ecto925
How I got here
I first found my passion in videography when filming a school project for my german class, I did not use any specific framing, editing technique or anything that a professional, confident video operator would use. I just filmed/edited it how I saw it in my mind and in result, me and my team got the first place amongst many others. That event was one of many things which propelled me forward into this spiral of self expression, hard labour, stress and satisfaction.
Proj. Liepāja
''if there's a trash can in the shot, the shot is trash''
Raivo Balodis
A proper beginning for a proper future
To be honest, I already had some experience editing even before I made the German project. I was making memes and posting them on YouTube, I don't know why, perhaps I just wanted to entertain an audience, like I do now!
I started getting some proper filming practice only when I enrolled into the Ogre Vocational school in around..2019? God, it was so fun, the first course I mean. I was just so incredibly hungry for knowledge, I was watching videos at home, carefully listening to my teachers at the lectures and I was practicing by myself in my free time too!
When the pandemic hit and we were sent home for the first time, I was making videos every other week, and the feeling of finishing the project gave me such incredible satisfaction, that I couldn't stop! With every video, I kept polishing up my filming style, my editing, script writing and acting! (though the last one still needs quite a lot of improvement lol)
Commercials I edited for unicon 2020/2021
Commercials I filmed and edited for various companies
