Lawrence Lo
Metro Vancouver
Hi there, hello.
Hi! I'm not good at long paragraphs so here's a very concise paragraph of who I am.
My name is Lawrence Lo, I was born in British Columbia, Canada. My parents are from China but I've always identified as Canadian. My interests tend to fluctuate so it's very hard to nail down a specific hobby. Throughout my life, I've been interested in various hobbies such as, video production, graphic design, visual effects, kinetic typography, digital drawing, screenwriting,frontend website development, computer repair, trading card collecting, video games, music playlist curating, and my most recent one, urban development (aka. public transit enthusiast).
See? Concise. I don't want the page to look empty so here's some blank lines pretending to be paragraphs. and yes I did code most of the website myself with some help from the internet and experience.
Email me with your business name and contacts to request a resume and reference if needed.
Art Gallery
Digital art has been a passion of mine since high school. It started with me just messing around with Photoshop in my computer graphics class, and it eventually grew to me making curated playlist covers, a pokemon poster, and finally to my most recent project, a fantasy-transit map for Metro Vancouver. Along the way, I've taken interests in fountain pen sketching (fancy way of saying sketching with a fountain pen), photography, video editing, and writing a screenplay for a show I'm passionate in making.
First Sign of Life
The goal of my video is to show what Vancouver feels like as it goes from a quiet, almost eerie place, to a more loud but also comforting place. Focusing on the transition of the first commuter arriving. I wanted to capture the sounds of the quiet streets, buildings, the cityscape and use editing techniques to layer them together, aiming to slowly build up the sounds until the final reveal of the commuter as a turning point representing the idea that the city has been moving all along. There were challenges I face during the filming process of this project. When I was out filming the footages, there was this overwhelming anxious feeling of invading people’s space, even though I knew there would be little to no people in my project. It took a bit of time, but eventually I decided to just face my fears and start recording and try my hardest to not think about other people. Eventually I was able to capture most of my footages, but countless times reviewing the videos made me doubt I would be able to capture the feeling I wanted to go for, on top of the horrible audio clipping that was present despite the new microphone I had purchased. Under time crunch from work and the project deadline, my total time spent editing ended up being one 4 hour session in the lab just before I had to go to work. In that time, I figured out a way to fix my audio issues by using Adobe Auditions’ “declipping” tool. This completely transformed my audio clips from completely useless to serviceable. I still had to use 3 or 4 sourced audio effects to fill in for audios I wasn’t able to capture, blending them into the overall soundscape of the video.
Let’s Connect
My primary contact is my email. :)