Holiday Greeting Video

Reflection

I feel like I did a good job working alone on this project. Originally, I had a partner that I had planned to work with but as a little time went on, I felt like I would have been better off working by myself on this. I know I did poorly reading my script, especially because I'm extremely anxious and uncomfortable in front of a camera. I think I did a decent job on my editing and my selection of music and pictures for this video.
From what I saw in other groups' videos, I would have liked to work with someone that had chosen a holiday similar to mine, even though not many people actually did that. I liked a lot of the other groups' opening titles to their videos.
To create my video, I did what I assume every other group did, which was write the script, film, select copyright-friendly material, and edit the video until it was to my expectations. I spent a lot of time looking for the perfect background, music, and pictures for this video, and I am happy with my selections. For the music, I also spent a good amount of time editing it to go along with the video (which inlduded fading along to my voice so that it didn't over power it as I spoke).
I worked alone on this project, and, to me, I feel like I did a fairly good job, much like the other people who actually worked with a partner.
I think if I were to do this project again, I would work with someone with a similar holiday (as stated above), and I would probably want to teach myself to be more comfortable and less awkward in front of the camera. I really wish I would have memorized my script, so that it didn't look like I was constantly looking up and away from the camera.

Cyberbullying Video Reflection

What parts of your video are you most satisfied with and proud of?
I think I am most proud of our music and our student interviews. Personally, I feel that our opening interview is powerful and has a way to grab an uniterested viewer's atttention and change their mind.
What comments from others were helpful to you in creating your final draft?
The most helpful comments were from that of Dr. Achterman, where he told us to break up our "prevention" scene into different ones for each topic.
What changes did you actually make on your final video?
For our final draft, I think we followed Dr. Achterman's recommendations and changed up quite a bit of our video; we broke up Mrs. Lomanto's interview, changed the names of the students, moved some clips around, and extended our entire "prevention" topic.
What changes would you make if you had another day or two?
If we had been given a few more days to work on our video, I think I would have selected different information from Mrs. Lomanto's interview and shortened them yet again to make them less time consuming.
If you had the chance to do the project all over again, what would you do differently?
Given the chance to do the project over again, I think I would have to change some of the things we included in our video. I especially would have like to add a few more student interviews.
What realizations, discoveries, and understandings did you reach about creating videos?
I learned a lot about what could go wrong during the editting process, and how to fix most of the issues without having to start over from the beginning.
What other thoughts do you have about your own project?
I'm really proud of the way our video turned out, but I feel like it could have been presented a lot better.

Cyberbullying Video Final Draft

Titles

Title One (00:00-00:02)

This is an example of an opening shot title, which means the title appears before your clip starts to play. You might use this kind of title when you are beginning a video or showing what your next clip is going to be about.


Title Two - Four (00:03-00:18)

This is an example of an overlay or "lower thirds" title (because of its placement), which means the title appears on top of your clip as it is playing. You might use this kind of title when you are showing what is going on or who is in the clip.

Lifting & Extracting

Lifting & Extracting
A simple cut in the timeline means making a cut in the timeline. When you cut, the other clips in the timeline left a gap between clips.
A ripple edit is when you remove a clip without leaving a gap. You do this by right clicking the selected clip. When you ripple delete, the other clips to the right of the deleted clip connect to the left clips.
Lifting and extracting are two ways to cut a clip at one time. To do this, you choose the in point and out point and select either the lift function or extract function.

Lifting is like cutting, while extracting is like ripple delete, in terms of what happens to the other clips in the timeline.

This is an example of an extracting edit. I decided to extract the two clips where I did because the removal of the clips left the remaining clips with a good flow.

Overlays & Inserts

Overlay
This is an example of an overlay edit. An overlay edit places a clip on top of your original clip. To do this, you drag the clip you want to use for your overlay on top of your original clip. I decided to overlay the second clip where I did because I felt it went well with the instructor's directions to "think about this."





Insert
This is an example of an insert edit. An insert edit places a clip in between two clips on your original clip. To do this, you hold down the CTRL key and drag & drop the clip on top of the clip of your choice. I decided to insert the second clip where I did because I wanted it to match the way I edited my overlay clip.

Baler Interviews: So You Want to be a Baler?

Product Reflection
This video was a lot of fun to work on with my partner, Alexis. Personally, I think we could have made the video a little more organized, since the topics the students talk about are a little haphazard and don't really follow a set "theme," but I kind of like that. To me, it shows how diverse everyone's opinions really are on what's so great about being a Baler. After watching a few other students' videos, I think we could have added a few more clips into ours, and made it a little more fun and spirited.. Since that's what being a Baler is all about, right? If I could do this project over, I would probably have tried to figure out how to get the text in the credits to scroll up, like how a real film's credits end. Also, after watching the video over, Alexis and I both realized that we forgot a key point in said credits.. Our name and block number. Hopefully, this isn't going to be too large of a problem, and we'll still get proper points on the assignment and whatnot. That is definitely something I would need to remember to do if I were to create this video all over again.

Process Reflection
On this project, I gained a better idea on what the word "teamwork" really means. Alexis and I had our fair share of problems working on this video, but each time something bad came up, we were able to figure it out by retracing our steps and correcting it before everything really went wrong. We asked only a few questions, and I'm sort of proud of Alexis for being able to figure out how to create a video with only a little bit of help from myself, as well as Dr. Achterman. My little Jedi is learning well. Also, while working with this video and creating the final project, I realised how stressed and frustrated I can get when I don't understand how a certain piece of technology works. Alexis kept me sane, though, and helped calm me down if something went wrong. I can't wait to start working on future video projects with her, and other people should the oppotunity arise.

Wet Cement

Reflection
The message of this video is to have patience, especially with children. The actions that communicate this are the expressions on the characters' faces and the body language portrayed between the two. To help communicate this message of patience, the filmmkaer included certain camera angles, darker lighting when focused on the older man as opposed to the lighter on the little boy.

Introduction

Jessica Hernandez's video introduction to the class, edited by Alexis Miranda, and myself.

Reflection
For editing a video for the first time, I think Alexis and I did a pretty decent job. It's obviously not Academy Award winning, but we got the job done and I think it turned out well. I think we stopped the ending a little too quickly, because it looks like Jessica is about to say something else after "Papa Murphy's." But, that could just be my OCD kicking in. I would like to learn more editing skills with the program, like blurring the video, zooming in and out (if possible), and how to change from color to black and white.

Alexis and I had a bit of trouble editing the video in the beginning, and
I was a little frustrated with not being able to understand what was going on with all the windows that were opened. Eventually, though, we figured out what we were doing right & wrong, and we worked together to complete the final product, which turned out good, if I may say so. I look forward to working on editing videos & filming with Alexis in the future.