Director's Cut

Reflection

For the director's cut of our video, I had already had ideas of how I wanted it to look before we even starting making it. Thankfully, Michaela and Eduardo had the same ideas, so we we're able to come out with a video the three of us had imagined and liked. We aimed for a video that made sure to show off our work during the making of our values video, but also showed that we had a fun time doing it. That we took the video seriously, but also made sure it was enjoyable to do at the same time. We wanted to make a serious video without having to stress about it.

We used film, Michaela's iPhone, and extras from our video to pull our director's cut together. I felt that we didn't have enough materials at first, but it seems that I was completely wrong. I actually really like our director's cut, and believe it achieved the message I was looking for.

We showed the steps used to make our Values video almost through a timeline sort of way. We started off by showing us during our storyboard stage, to finding music and scouting the area, then during our actual filming, and finally some steps we had to take after we filmed. We left out many things, because like I said earlier, we didn't have that many sources to begin with. Other than that, i'm really proud of our video and hope that others enjoyed it too.

Final Draft: Good Values

Good Values Video

This reflection is written by both Ashley and Michaela.

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.