Reflection for the Holiday Video

Reflecting on my peer's videos, and taking a look back at mine, I've come to realize that I listened to the music a lot. So when I look back on my video, I realize that I do enjoy the way our music came out. If anything, I would lower the volume of it a little bit, to make it seem more gentle. I also payed attention to other titles. I liked ours, but I saw some really nice ones, that would've really fit our beginning with the map background. (i.e. Jake's and Eduardo B.'s opening title was very nice.)
Specifically for our video, I worked together with Michaela to create the script, and helped get background pictures and music for the video. I also edited the green screen, and got the background pictures in.
Both Michaela and I worked well in getting the video done together. We both really have a sense that if we're making a partner video, the work should be shared. I must give her credit for final edits on the video, and she worked really hard to get it done when I wasn't able to. Thank you Michaela, it was very nice being able to work with you. :)
For our video, as I said earlier I would just adjust the music volume a little, and the scene where I discuss the rice and milk breakfast, I would adjust the background so that you could actually see the offering at the shrine, to further enhance the point I was trying to make. Also, I think next time it would just be easier to memorize my script. It looks better when i'm actually looking at the camera. Otherwise, I like my video and hope my peers did as well.

Holiday Video

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Green Screen Workshop

When it comes to a green-screen, the process is quite simple. You film your subjects standing in front of a green sheet hung upon the wall. After filming what you need, capture your work into Premiere Pro., and save what you need. You could always edit the green screen on Premiere, but the class has come to learn if you edit it from Adobe After Effects, you're going to get a much cleaner edit. It's easier to get a better looking green-screen edit. Now, you have to be careful with green-screens. Definately, be wise on what you wear. Wearing bright colors and things that can possibly blend into the green sheet should be avoided. I noticed that black, darker colors won't be confused for the green when editing. Also, your lighting is extremely important to the film. You're going to want a lot of lighting, from three angles. Two lights on either side of you, and one from behind. This prevents any shadows from showing on the screen, which has proven to be extremely difficult to work with. Overall, I believe we did well on our video using what we had to work with.

Cyberbullying Video: Final

The parts of my video that I am most satisfied with would be the clip of my sister (the girl at home) on facebook, providing an example of what cyberbullying looks like. I like the expression of sadness that she shows, and as the clip end the music fades off softly, and I love the way that worked out. I felt it really gave a negative to feel to cyberbullying and showed that it really does hurt people. Comments that I found helpful were the comments about the audio. I hadn't really noticed a problem with it until my fellow classmates pointed it out. Also, Dr.A pointed out to us that there were many spelling errors that most of the class, and ourselves had not noticed. Thank you all, it helped us open our eyes to the whole video. Changes we made were audio chnages, we made the background song even through most of the video, so that you could hear the people in the interviews, and so that the song didn't sound so uneven. I felt this really chaged the video for the better. On the topic of audio, we also fixed the ending audio so that you could hear all four of us speaking instead of just Michaela. This was also a huge factor to the video because we have all four of us showing at once, and it wouldn't make sense to just have one person speaking. Also minor changes such as spelling and some text/title layouts were adjusted. Lastly we adjusted some of our lower-thrids, because we as well as the class realized that these did not fit well with the camera angles in our clips. Had we been given another day or two, I personally woould've liked to do some voice-over narrations in the video. While the titles do in fact look well with the video, it was just a factor I had thought of when we originally wrote the script. I believe the rest of the group would've liked this as well, but we did what we could with the time given. If we did the entire project over again, I don't really know that I would've changed anything. I really am satisfied with the video and I feel the whole group dedicated themselves to this project and we did the best to our abilities. I feel that we have shown that this group worked together and did what we all could to pull this off. I came to realize that you don't need so many effects in a video. In the begining of this project, I was so focused on making sure that each clip flowed into one another, that we had enough effects so that not even one scene would cut to another. I wanted them to blend. I realized that while these do look good, is it really all the good for the video? I realized that so many effects does capture the audience, but not to the message of the video. People would focus on how cool that one effect look, and not on the importance to cyberbullying. It would almost make our video useless. As for the video, I think i've said all that i've needed to say. I would just like to thank my group for sticking together and thank the help of my peers, the guests in our video, and  Dr.A to get this video accomplished the way we had wanted to.

Cyberbullying Video

reflectoin for my cyberbullying rough draft video

Based upon the feedback comments I have read, I now fully understand the pros and cons of my group's video, and the areas we need to work on. I noticed many comments suggested adjusting the volume of the film. Looking back to the video I now also understand what my peers are talking about, and I now know to keep that in mind in the future. I also noticed comments about some of our interviewees, and how they can be adjusted or maybe even cut. I'm glad to see that my peers enjoyed the clip of my sister, the girl on the computer at home. I'm overall satisfied with people's reaction to the video. I would like to thank people for pointing out things such as grammar, and what fits in with the video and what doesn't. I now can see what areas of my video need to be adjusted, and I plan on doing the best I can to achieve the best video I can make.

Lifting and Extracting

A simple cut in the timeline means to delete a pert of your clip from the timeline.  When you cut, the other clips in the timeline stay where they were placed. A ripple edit is almost the same thing as cutting a clip, but instead of the clips staying where they are, they move over to join with the other clips.  You do this by right-clicking the clip, then selecting "ripple delete". When you ripple delete, the other clips to the right of the deleted clip move over. Lifting and extracting are two ways to cut the end of a clip and the beggining of another clip at one time. To do this, you set your in and out points in the control panel, and once you're happy with your points, lift them.Lifting is like taking a clip out while extracting is like replacing clips in terms of what happens to the other clips in the timeline.

This is an example of an lifting edit.  I decided to lift the two clips where I did because I felt it looked best for the clips I used.

The difference between an overlay and an insert edit is when you use overlay, the 1st clip will keep playing during the 2nd clip. When you insert the clip, the 1st clip will stop where it's at, and after the 2nd clip has ended, the 1st will pick up from where it left off. You would use an overlay when you're making interview-like videos, when it would look funny if you cut the clip off,while you’d use an insert edit when you need to stop the fist clip, like in a flashback (just some examples). In this case, the insert edit works better because you can follow the horse's path and know where it's going to be.

This is an example of an overlay edit. An overlay edit places a clip between another clip, and the first clip continues playing. To do this, you drag the second clip (using Premiere Pro.) into the timeline and drag it in between the first clip. I decided to place the 2nd clip where I did because I believe that's where it looked best during the 1st video.

Baler Interviews

Reflection

On this project, the class filmed oursleves saying what we like most about our highschool. In the beginning, the first film we used was never recorded, so we recorded again. We went through hell trying to get the video onto the computer, with no success. Dr.A ended up having the whole class refilm in front of a black screen, due to lighting issues. Technology-1, Class-0.

Finally, after refilming and getting things close to the way we wanted them, the whole class reviewed every single video, and judged them for the project. Dr.A pointed out faults in videos that we should be careful of, and I believe the whole class got a better understanding and awareness for good videos versus bad videos.

Then, it was time to begin the project. Michaela was a wonderful partner to work with, and I believe we had the same ideas in mind for the video. We came to agreements easily and equally used both of our ideas in the video. There are some issues to point out in the video, though. Obviously, our big mistake was not formatting the video correctly. I think the beginning clip before the title should've been cut a few seconds earlier, for she goes into the next word. Ultimately, though, i'm very pleased with the video. Not to sound arrogant, but i think our video was unique. I like that we used a mixture of longer and shorter clips, and used clips to support the clip before it.

Next time, I will definitely have to keep an eye out for the formatting screen. And hopefully not have such a hard time with the technology. Overall, this was an enjoyable expierence and I'm satisfied with the video that was produced.

Reflection: Editing on Premiere Pro.

     On the first day of class I taped a video of myself telling the veiwer things they may not know about me, and what I liked about my highschool. Later on, we had to use Adobe Premeire Pro to edit our videos. Although we had slideshows showing us step-by-step instructions on what to do, technology got the best of me and made this expierence quite difficult. Between trying to figure out how to use the program in the first place, and uploading wrong videos, I had quite the time trying to understand all of this. My partner and I helped each other through most of the project, which was nice, but I can't say that I like technology better after all was said and done.
    First we imported our videos, which was actually a collection of multiple student's videos. We used Set In Point and Set Out Point to slim the video down to just us. After editing and perking things to just the way we want it, we coded our videos, and uploaded them to Youtube. From there, we added our videos to our blogs and wa-la! The videos were completed, therefore, our project was almost finished. This reflection is the last of it.
  I'll try to wrap this up quick, considering it's already so long. In the end, I further educated myself on editing videos, and how to upload. I hope that next time we do this, I'll have an easier time.
 My video? I think it turned out alright. But that's not for me to decide.
  

 

 

see notebook for reflection

Our Group Discussion about Values.com

Our group liked "The Greatest" video the best. The value in the video was to never give up, and if something doesn't work for you, maybe try working around it and finding something you're good at. We enjoyed the different shots used in the video, and  we especially enjoyed the end, when you think the child is going to hit the ball, but doesn't.