Extra Credit

This class was fun experiance, it was alot harder then expected though. As an actress I feel knowing more about this ascpect of film making will help me understand the process better.

What I've Learned

Being in Teledramatic Arts we learn a lot of things that we don’t specifically put into use that might just sit in the back of our minds. One thing I learned that I never had an opportunity to put into use do either to time or lack of equipment ability was lighting. We learned a great deal about lighting how to use it to our advantage what curtain lighting does to a scene it can make it happy or sad or scary or joyful depending on if it’s dark or light. Lighting has a huge effect on the video and how it will come across. That is what lighting has taught me when looking at a video.

Final Reflection- Blog

At the beginning of this year I first learned how to work Premiere Pro like over lay’s and inserts you can see this by viewing my blogs videos.  Dealing with the camera I think the most important lesson I learned was the O.T.S project. In this project I learned how to position the camera properly over the shoulder while obeying the Rule of thirds. This helped me when making other videos like the good values video. I really enjoyed learning about the green screen exercise this helped Ashley and I to do our Holiday video I think we did a good job cutting out the green part and using the skill we had learned in the exercise. Nearing the end of the year we stopped learning different techniques and started to use them. My blog reflects this by showing more videos with content and fewer restrictions then the ones earlier. You see in my Blog that the videos become more complicated. For example the good values project has many techniques that we learned incorporated into it. As well as our cyber bullying video, that showed what we learned with titles and editing. That video really showed my groups editing skills and title making ability that we learned through workshops. After doing the rule of thirds workshop I showed how I can apply this in all my future videos. Every time I and my group members started a filming session we made sure that we followed the rule of thirds. By following the rule of thirds our videos come out more balanced and better looking. Another skill that I continuously used in my videos is the angle workshop. After learning many different angles and shots that could be taken I had to adapt that to the videos I did after. In that workshop we learned that different shots made different moods come out and different shots were used for different parts of the video i.e. establishment shot.  Another key component I learned that I show on my blog is music and sounds. We learned that sounds are very important to the mood and dramatic/comedic aspect of a video. In my rough draft of Good Values there is no music except for the credits and the video wasn’t very effective towards the audience. When we added music the audience response was a lot better than the first time we showed the video.  Another prim example of sound effects being useful is in our final video “Code Red” you hear and the siren that indicates a code red and without this sound affect the video wouldn’t make much sense.  Looking back on this year’s blog I see that I’ve learned a lot regarding film making, editing, critiquing, and being in films. I’ve learned dos and don’ts of teledramatic arts.

Final Video

This is a parody of the code red drill.It's ment as a Informational Parody on what to do during a code red.

Water is Wide- Abstract Music Video

Reflection

In Ashley and I’s video we wanted to get across the idea of a child’s imagination. We started with the picture of the backyard to show where this is really happening then we showed the boy transform into the brave night. We also have some back story on the battle showing the “kingdom” before war and then what happened after. Then we meet the bad guy and you see the hero having to fight with the bad guy. Near the end of the fight you see the bad guy turn into a stuffed monkey. You see the kingdom morph back into to the backyard. The little boy’s imagination took him on a wild journey to save the kingdom from evil.

The sequence I’m most proud of is 2:59-3:14. In this sequence you see the battle field go back to the back yard and the night go back to the little boy. I think this really helped the story because the movement of the first image of the kingdom it’s moving across the screen and then the backyard continues to move in the same direction looking like you’re scanning across and you can see it go back to reality.

I would have to say about 50% of our film is abstract. The abstract pictures we used were pictures of trees or forest type landscapes and they did all go together to make the video come together in a common theme.

I learned it’s a lot harder to do an abstract video then a regular video. The reason why I think this is because with a regular video you can just show what you mean but with an abstract video you have to allude to it using abstract things and your meaning of the video can be lost to others there can be many different stories that other people see.

Music has a very large meaning and it’s interesting to see others interpret it because different people se different things and its fascinating to see the music come alive through the images that people choose to make a new story and plot.

My partner found all the images she worked incredibly hard looking through all the creative commons and finding pictures that would go with our idea and vision of what we wanted our video to look like. I think the most I contributed to the making of the video was the effects and edits that I made to sync the music up with our story line we were making.

1) you go into video effects and click on the effect bend then you click and drag it over to the slected clip
2) you double click on the clip and it should appear in the second panle and click on effect controls then set the points and edit to liking.
3) we could use this in a video if you would like to do a point of view shot and show that we are drowsey or un well

1) we used brush strokes in the file stylize. you click and drag to slected clip
2) you double click on the clip and it should appear in the second panle and click on effect controls then set the points and edit to liking.
3)you could use this in a video by doing a change to another demension like you're being painted into another world thats the only why I saw it.

STAR Promo

Why Our Video

Ashley and I are very proud of this video. We think the beginning is unique showing the dates and edits our are nice and clean. We also like how we put the walk the line to 759 through out the video. We also took our time in carefully choosing the clips we used.

Directors Cut

Reflection

We did alot of prep for the video and we had alot of ideas for shot angles and such that we ended up not using. Our group had fun while making the plans for our video we could laugh and have a good time but at the same time get down to buisness. The one thing we left out of the directers cut is the problem with sound that we had it was a realitivly easy fix just took some time to deal with.

Final Draft!

Response to the Reflection

This post is from Michaela and Eddie

The positive comments that were most meaningful to us were from Michaela and Cole. (Two different posts, not a pair saying one thing). And Brad and Chris told us that they really liked the cafeteria establishing shot, and that was helpful because it made us feel good about the choice of using the cafeteria and it made it look realistic. In addition John and Jocelyn  told us that We should add more music when Michaela enters to make it seem like she’s the nice girl., and that helped us see that We need more music in our video at key points.
The two best suggestions we got were from Brad and Chris and Blanca and Michelle (again, two suggestions from different posts, a pair saying one thing).

Brad and Chris suggested that we cut a little off the clip of the new kid looking sad. We agree with this suggestion, and our plan to address it is to look for a place to cut it shorter.

Blanca and Michelle suggested that we have some Dialogue between Eddie and Michaela. We agree with this suggestion, and our plan to address it is too we might discuss re filming some parts if necessary. .

Good Values Rough Draft Project

Ashley and I Did Our Reflection Together

This video took a lot of planning, and re-planning. From the choosing of the script, to handeling the cafeteria scenes, we had our hands full. We knew from the beginning we needed a cafeteria shot, to establish that the setting was at school, but figuring it all out and actually doing it were a tad bit harder than we had expected. Once we got all of our needed shots, we realized that the sound on the first scene was morphed, and irritating due to the boom mic. Then when we got to the second scene, we didn't use the boom mic, and the device that went along with it was not turned on, so we had no sound. Lovely. It took a lot of bleeding ears to try and fix the sound in Adobe Soundbooth, and some of it still sounds a little off, but a great improvement nonetheless. The editing was mostly easy, just a few shots were questionable. It was a little difficult managing the camera operations, with only three people to our group, but we got it. The cafeteria scene was a little crazy to film, especially with everyone else needing to film their videos. Ultimately, we really enjoyed making this film, and would like to once again thank our class for helping this video get completed.  

O.T.S project Block 2

Reflection

1)      Our group didn’t do a lot of planning we followed the script most of the time. Before we started shooting we planned what shots would be on what line and how we should convey it to the camera.

2)      Yes I believe we did. The shot where you first see Ashley is a perfect example Taylor did a great job of following the rule of thirds in the over the shoulder shots.

3)      The impression of the O.T.S is that you see the characters face and you see the emotion on them to convey maybe an unspoken truth like the reaction shot .

4)      The dialogue itself seemed un natural to me personally. There wasn’t a lot of challenges that we faced when editing because of the way we filmed it we didn’t have to edit a whole lot just arrange in the proper order.

5)      I didn’t hear or see a dominant mood in the video it just seemed simple and plane. Ashley and I just said the words with minimum emotion I guess you could say

6)      I really like the over the shoulder shots and but I think you should use it in moderation so your shots don’t become repetitive.

7)      Other ideas were emphasized by the over the shoulder by getting the shot in the rule of thirds and good lighting.