Final Video: "the result."

Thinking About our Final Values Film

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.

1) What value are you trying to represent? Honesty
2) What do you think your group has done well? I think we have worked very well as a group together. We have a lot of the same ideas and if there was any sort of issue, we would talk about it before it got out of hand.
3) What do you still need to complete? We still need to finish editing our rough draft of our film.
4) What are you most in need of feedback about? We want to know if our cuts were clean and if the clips we used worked well together and made our video look koala tea.
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. I think the biggest challenge we faced was having to rewrite our script to fit the changed requirements of the video. Originally, we planned to have our main character be a male, but we had to change it because we needed our group to be in the cast.

Over The Shoulder

Reflection
Describe how your group planned your shots. What realizations did you make about the kind of planning that needs to happen BEFORE you shoot?
We didn't really plan out our shots, and all we knew was that we were going to need to learn the concept of over the shoulder shots.

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 my shots we had the rule of the thirds but on Cassie's shots we didn't.

What IMPRESSIONS do the over the shoulder shots create about the characters? How does this work?
In an over the shoulder shot, it is like you are standing in front of the character that is talking and getting on a more "personal" level.

How realistic does the dialogue seem in the final edit? What challenges did you have in editing?
To me, the dialogue seems somewhat realistic. We didn't really have any challenges during editing.

Is there a dominant mood or tone to your video? What is that mood or tone? How did you accomplish this?
I'd like to think the mood in this video is positive. We decided that Cassie would be a little bit more into the script than I, to make it a little more realistic to us.

What other observations do you have about using over the shoulder shots?
I don't really have any other observations.

What other ideas got emphasized or reinforced about how to make effective videos from doing this exercise?
One idea that was emphasized was that it added more of a relatable atmosphere with the characters in a film in an over the shoulder shot, it's like you are actually there in a conversation.

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