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Ahmed Jahi McLendon: Photographer, Film/Video Editor, Content Creator
Welcome to the Blog Archives
For fellow artists professionals, Researchers, and casual readers alike, these are the blog posts that I've done over the years since I've been in college. It's also where I post entries and other things that pique my interest as well.
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Journey of Evolution (Senior Thesis Project Blog)
Hello Everyone, Here I will be discussing what I've been doing thus far regarding my project, As of right now, I'm in the final...
Ahmed McLendon
Sep 7, 20201 min read
Senior Film PROJECT Confliction of Three Words (COTW) Update (Weekly production Report 6/5/2020)
With the events of everything happening after the Devastatingly injustice that took place with the murdering of "George Floyd". I've...
Ahmed McLendon
Jul 25, 20201 min read
Advance Digital and Film (Weekly production Report #1)
So as of today, the class has officially started for Advance Digital Film and animation. This will be a true test of skill and endurance...
Ahmed McLendon
Jul 25, 20201 min read
Confliction of Three Words (Confliction of Three Words) 7/10/2020
As of the last few weeks, I've gone from having almost no crew at all, to now having a great number of friends backing up my vision. It's...
Ahmed McLendon
Jul 25, 20201 min read
COTW update (6.12.2020) At a Loss for Words 😔
Today is June 12, 2020, To summarize this week in brief, I'm currently at a lost for words. The biggest thing holding me back is the...
Ahmed McLendon
Jul 25, 20201 min read
Senior Film PROJECT Confliction of Three Words (COTW) Update (Weekly production Report 6/5/2020)
With the events of everything happening after the Devastatingly injustice that took place with the murdering of "George Floyd". I've...
Ahmed McLendon
Jul 25, 20201 min read
Sacrifice (The Last Stage of Growing up)
"Sacrifice is a choice one makes willingly, Loss is a Choice made for you -Tomb Raider- At some point in our lifetimes, we reach a...
Ahmed McLendon
Jul 25, 20201 min read
Finally finishing up a shotlist
if there’s one thing I’ve learned from being in my program. it’s that doing all of this by yourself is beyond exhausting. I was able to...
Ahmed McLendon
Apr 20, 20201 min read
Quarantine Journal (Content motivation struggles)
As of today, It’s been possibly four to six weeks since I’ve been in quarantine as a result of COVID-19. I’m relearning more about myself...
Ahmed McLendon
Apr 14, 20201 min read
A College student in quarantine
So, I was given the assignment to edit a news package for my video editing class. needless to say,  I feel as though I’m not where I...
Ahmed McLendon
Apr 6, 20201 min read
Exploring Black Sci-fi (Final Project Idea for Digital Cinema 2)
So, as of right now, we are going to be doing an 5-10 short film based on a Black Sci-fi Novel of our choosing. That being said, I’m not...
Ahmed McLendon
Feb 6, 20201 min read
Week of February 4th 2020
Who is your favorite Cinematographer? My favorite cinematographers would be the “Watakosi Brothers”, mainly because they created the...
Ahmed McLendon
Feb 4, 20201 min read
Internship Life 5 ( Identifying pritories)
A lot of assignments are coming down upon me. I have yet to find time to finish touching up my panel on the koev brothers. in addition,...
Ahmed McLendon
Nov 16, 20191 min read
Internship Report #4
So today we are doing a interview producton for a Real estate company, For the DMV.  I was basically the person responsible for the...
Ahmed McLendon
Nov 13, 20191 min read
Internship Life #4 (Trying to Stay Afloat)
So as of current I’ve been working on editing a panel event about how to properly budget your film. for starters the event itself is...
Ahmed McLendon
Nov 10, 20191 min read
Internship Blog #3 ( conference calls)
The thing about working at Latin e, is that we don’t have a dedicated Studio to work from. instead we meet up at an intelligence office...
Ahmed McLendon
Oct 30, 20191 min read
Weekly Internship Report #1
Well we just finished doing our 1st Film festival for Latin E. there was a lot of work that we had to accomplish, but we were able to...
Ahmed McLendon
Oct 28, 20191 min read
The Avalanches- Because I’m Me (Critique)
As a person who enjoys music, I can say that this music video has something going for it. The editing flow of the video, is concrete....
Ahmed McLendon
Oct 23, 20191 min read
Ahmed McLendon
Oct 23, 20190 min read
Photo Roman Intro activity
For my Photo Roman intro activity, my story is going to be based on the folktale “Humpty Dumpty” Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/p...
Ahmed McLendon
Sep 3, 20191 min read
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