Words Of Wisdom

In my Gt class, we did a project called Words Of Wisdom. For this project we had to interview someone that we thought was wise. We also had to film lots of B-Roll to match the interview. We completed this by filming our interview and B-Roll on time. Then, we worked together to edit, and make the final touches. Sophia and Chazz, and I worked to the extreme in a high stress environment, just like what would happen at a professionals video workplace.

Glenna Foster

For our interview, we interviewed Chazz's grandmother, Glenna. She talked about how important it is to have fun, while still working hard. We thought this was important because sometimes people are stressed to the point of breaking down, so we think its important for people to know that you can still have fun while you're working.

Five Tips For

Our teams topic for our Five Tips project was "Five Tips For Reading a Book". We did this project earlier in the year so we could look back on it. We picked this topic because, Erin and Mikela, my two partners, also love books as much as I do. We spend our free time reading books, so we informed other people about our reading techniques. A lot of things could of been better in this video, for one example, we could of have practiced the voice over more, to have it sound natural. We also could of had more interesting angles and composition techniques. Compared to what we are doing in this quarter, this was horrible. but, it could be worse.
For another example, Erin's head is cut off and the background is distracting in the screen shot below.

Practice Profile Story

The purpose of our practice story was to prepare us for the actual interview that we have done. We planned it out, edited it, and completed it. We did almost everything that we do for the actual interview. For our practice, my partners, Chazz, and Sophia, interviewed me on reading. It showed how reading affects me and what its role is in my life. We chose I to interview because it is an interesting subject and I was willing and happy to be interviewed. It shows B-Roll and interview composition. 

Profile Project Progress

For my Gt class, we are interviewing Grandma Glenna, Chazz's grandmother. We are interviewing her on how she has fun, how she has fun in her shop, and what she does to keep upbeat. We have filmed at her shop, Earth and Sea gallery. We chose to interview her because she is always upbeat and fun when Chazz is around her, she's hardworking and knows how to balance it with fun.

B-Roll gives a video visual interest and helps to tell a story. When using B-Roll correctly on top of the interview, adding B-Roll for visual help can give the addition of great imagery and give the viewer a relatable feeling. When you use B-Roll, you layer your footage over your interview and you can still hear the interview going, but you also see different footage. Voice over do basically the same thing, but with only your voice, while the footage is rolling, you only hear the voice that is speaking.

My team works together well. Sophia Rodriguez, and Charles McConnell, are both my partners. So far we have not fallen behind, we have filmed everything correctly, and are moving on. To work better than we already are, we can try to work faster and efficiently. Thanks to us, our video is great and is being done correctly. We made sure that we had enough time to get everything done on time, and planned what to do. To get more B-Roll, we are filming as much as we can whenever we can.

We can improve upon our video by piecing the story together better. We can also add more B-Roll, and add more interesting angles. We can also make the voice over sound smoother, by practicing it and then re-filming it. We can also cover up some cuts in the interview. When we did our critique, we saw what we needed to improve and we are going to act upon what people said.

Composition Techniques

The main four composition techniques are the rule of thirds, framing, unusual angles, and leading lines.
Leading lines are are when lines lead to the subject. Framing is when you create an image using things in the background or foreground to frame your subject. Rule of thirds is when your subject is aligned with the graph thats sometimes is on a camera, the subjects eye is on one of the crossings, and looking off the frame. Unusual angles give the picture or video a different more interesting view, like a birds eye view or a looking up shot.

Unusual Angle

Leading Lines 

Rule of Thirds

Three Shot Sequences

Sequencing is a series of three shots or more in a row in a movie or video. Sequencing can add interest in a video by giving different points of view. You can sequence by doing different shot types, for an example, a wide shot, then a medium shot, then a close up. In some quality videos, sequencing is a series of 3 short clips with interesting and complex angles with different perspectives that help describe the action thats happening. Sequencing is important because it adds to the video, if a video starts to drag on, sequencing can have an effect that keeps the video interesting.

Practice Story Reflection

In my Gt class, we did a practice interview to prepare us for a new project later on. My groups video was about me, talking about how I love books. In my group I worked with Charles McConnell and Sophia Rodriguez. While we were doing this, we learned how to work together when we had a short period of time. Mr. Sandrel gave us a high stress environment so we had to work together to get it done on time. He was preparing us for a real life deadline that could happen later on.

Making this video, we first shot our interview. While we were shooting the interview, we had to quickly come up with the questions we would use that related to our topic. In addition to that we had to make sure that we had a good interview composition, not a shot that looked like a profile. A profile shot is when you see only the side of your face. Good interview composition is when your head is slightly turned, in the rule of thirds, and your looking off the camera frame. We also had to make sure that the background noise wasn't too loud that it would take away from the main audio.

We used a a small microphone that clipped to my shirt to get the highest quality of sound. After we finished shooting the interview, we shot the B roll. B roll is the footage that shows while the interview audio is playing. We shot our B roll in the library because what better place to show and read books, than a place literally full of books?

I think that our project definitely could of been better, but with the time we had, we did our best. We had to corporate as much as possible to get everything done. We made a transcript to follow along while editing. We did our editing in Final Cut Pro .

Then, after everyone was finished, we critiqued all of our videos. We graded them on audio, visuals, and story.