Final Viedo--The Result

Thinking about Our Final Values Video

This post is from everyone that commented on our blog and the video. Liz, Jorge and Alicia, Elissa, Luis and Lizzy, Ryan, Julissa, Cynthia.
The positive comments that were most meaningful to us were from Everyone. They all pretty much said the same thing in one way or another. They told us that the little sections of the flashback were really good and it worked well with the storylineThat was helpful because It let us know that the choice to do the flashback was correct. In addition, they told us that the shots of Alexis’ character where you can truly see her reaction were done well, and that helped us see that we did stuff right even though we were stressing the film wasn’t that great.
The two best suggestions we got were from pretty much everyone who posted a comment. They all told us the same thing we were already thinking about the editing and the music and that was helpful because we were able to tell that we were on the right check and we all thought the same thing. We already addressed the situations that were all mentioned.

Roughdraft two...

The reflection for the FIRST roughdraft is pretty much the same.
Our value is trying to represent doing the right thing.
We edited well for the time we had.
We need to fine tune the cuts and add some music.
We wanted feedback on whether it was TOO long and if so what they suggest to cut.
Our challenge was time. Our roughdraft could have been more refined if we had a little bit more time.

Rough Draft...one

1) What value are you trying to represent?
honesty
2) What do you think your group has done well?
I think we have as a group worked together very well. We have gotten ALL our filming done together. As pf right now the film is rough but we know we need to finish editing.
3) What do you still need to complete?
The editing process and then just refining things.
4) What are you most in need of feedback about? (We want to know if..., We're wondering if this camera angle worked when...etc.)
The cuts and the way the video flows.
5) Identify a challenge your group discovered and faced in creating the film. Focus on a challenge about how to best tell your story. Describe how you dealt with that challenge, including discussions you had, things you tried and decided to leave out, and what you ultimately did to address it.

The challenge is a little bit of miscommunication, time, and of course having a vision in our minds that we can't FULLY complete. We get pretty darn close though.

Shoulder Shots

Describe how your group planned your shots. What realizations did you make about the kind of planning that needs to happen BEFORE you shoot?
At first we had everything planned out, but we had trouble setting up the shots because we all had to think things trough and take out time.

Look at the composition of your over the shoulder shots. Did you follow the rule of thirds? Why or why not?

Yes and NO. On Jaay's footage we did, but on mine we didn't. I don't really nkow why we didn't that is just how it ended up.

What IMPRESSIONS do the over the shoulder shots create about the characters? How does this work?

That they are having a conversation that is kind of serious, brings it down to thier level.
See things through "thier eyes".

How realistic does the dialogue seem in the final edit? What challenges did you have in editing?

Not so realistic. The script was kind of weird. BUT with the editing and the conversation it looked like it was a real conversation.

Is there a dominant mood or tone to your video? What is that mood or tone? How did you accomplish this?

Yes, a casual talk between friends. One is layed back through acting other is hyper and curious.

What other observations do you have about using over the shoulder shots?

I don't eally know how to answer this one...

What other ideas got emphasized or reinforced about how to make effective videos from doing this exercise?
You get INTO the conversation, as if you as seeing it right there and then from behind the charaters. You also get on thier level.

Seasons Greeting

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Reflections:

What Kayla and I did well on was the actually having music (it made things more interesting and gave it another layer instead of us just talking) and also having unique title pages. From the crowd the title pages werw a good hit with everyone. Along with that I think our story of both of us coming from India and Kayla just traveling was a good idea. Again it was different from most of the other groups. Our actual pictures that we had were very nice and fit the story very well too.

What I would have like to have done was have edited the green screen settings better. Other groups edited that very well and I think it would have made the video that much better if I was not transparent. Another things I would have liked to have done better was to edit the music a bit better. I also wish we could have found Indian music but we couldn’t. It would have added more culture to it.

What I did specifically for the video was a lot of editing. Our computers kept crashing and I ended up staying longer to ix the video. Along with that I did some extra editing in a different class in the school library, other than that we split the work 50/50. We also worked together to get the title pages just how we wanted them and we discussed everything such as music and even our backgrounds.

I helped my partner by staying a little bit later here and there to edit and doing more work outside of this class. Also I was able to help figure out little glitches with Premier Pro. What Kayla helped me on was the same thing, little glitchese here and there. This was a really good team work ethic that we both had. We worked together and helped each other out when it was needed.

I would personally want to fix the music editing a little more, and also fix the fact that I am transparent. Along with that I think our video was pretty good.

Greenscreen:Kayla and Cassie

The green screen is put up and it set the lighting correctly (trying to have no shadow,not many differences in the shades of green, no wrinkles, etc. The more differences and imperfections the harder it is to edit.). Then a person stands in front and gets recorded. This color is chosen because it is more likely for a person to NOT wear a bright almost neon green. The problems that can occur:wrinkles in the fabric, differences in the shades of green (cause--lighting), and some areas might have something OTHER then the green screen. Therefore it is harder to eliminate the green screen just right before you start to lose the focus (person) of the video. After Effects was much easy to use for eliminating the green screen. No other thoughts really.