Final Reflection

My blog shows a lot of things that I learned through out the year. Early in the year i learned how to put music in a video and to edit it. It helped me considerably in my first few videos. It brought a lot of excitement to some of the videos and to others it helped create a certain theme or mood. The editing was very important to these early videos. All of the cuts and edits we put to the vidoes pretty much made the whole video. The length and cuts to the music helped our videos become exciting and attractive to watch and made people laugh and be focused on either our mood/tone of the video or the value we were trying to enforce or portray. Another thing that i learned and used in my blog was storyboarding and collaborating with fellow group members. It was very important and helpful using these things. For example for our values videos we had to story board for several class periods and collaborate with our group's ideas and contributions we wanted to put in. We all came together in the end and agreed on one theme and a story to express it. It was soo much easier to just go off the story board to create the video because it was pretty much already done for us. Rather than just filming on the spot and just throwing it all together at the end. One other very important thing that we had to use and put in our videos was music. We had to go through our video footage and pick music to go with it. After we all picked a song to fit the video we had to edit it in and lenghten it to the video or pictures in it. The music was very helpful in showing some of our messages. The music could also show things such as suspense, fear, joy etc.

5. The things that i believe i learned about making videos would have to be that editing and the music can make or break a video. The music is a very important thing to a lot of viewers and catches a person's attention right off the bat. Also the music is very key in showing emotions in the actors of the video and the mood/tone. The editing is also a very crucial step in your video making. Your video would just look boring if it wasnt edited to the length of the music, The story or mood, etc. Also the edits will show your own creativity that you can put in the video.

6. This class was a good experience to me. I liked all of the new things that i learned about filmmaking and computers from being here. It was cool also to be able to work on group skills and communicating with others in this class and when making videos. Also the class showed me that practice such as storyboarding for your video can pay off in the end its worth it to actually make your video that much better to watch and make.

Final Video

Introduction: This video is suppose to show all of the fun and some of the procedures we had to go through to make our videos good. It has some bloopers and an overall goodbye to the class and the videos we made.

Abstract Video

Reflection to the "Water is Wide": 1. The story that we chose to go with the song was about the journey or cycle of a tree. It shows somewhat the life of the tree and how it goes through its days. The first part shows its early years as a seed sapling etc. Then it moves to thing it encounters such as a fear of being cut down and fire. Then it shows its great wisdom that comes with its age. And in the end it is burned/cut down and the cycle starts again. 2. I am most proud of the last sequence segment from about 3:05 to the end. We were trying to provoke the new and fresh start of life like the tree rings and the new sapling. The colors like the light coming off the tree ring seemed angelic and the color change in the spaling showed a transformation. 3. i would say all of it is abstract even the stills are abstract that didint have any change added to them. We knew that the mood had to be a certain way and used a variety of colors, shapes, etc. 4. I learned that you can tell a story with just abstract images. 5. I realized that the interaction between music and images is very unique it works great together and i didint expect it to. 6. My partner's most important contribtion was coming up with the basic idea of the story. 7. The most important contribution i made would have to be the effects that i put in the video it really helped out a lot.

Reflection: Which special effect did you use best? Describe what effect you used and why you think this worked. What mood were you trying to communicate? What idea were you trying to show by using this image and effect? The special effect that we used the best would have to be the twirl under the gpu effects in the effect control folder. The effect we used was the TWIRL and I think it worked because it was totally different than the original video and it was a wierd thing and blew my mind. The mood that we were trying to communicate was a kinda dark and mystic one. It was a lot of dark and scary trees and it went with the kinda dark theme of our stanza. The idea that we were trying to show by using the twirl was that the trees were freaky and kinda make the viewer have an uneasy feeling.

Reflection: To find the effect that we used for our sandbox samples you go to the side panel in adobe premiere after you open a new document, then you go to the video effects and open the folder gpu effects and pick one that suits your individual video. If you want to change the settings to get the effect you want you should add keyframes to chnage it throughout the clip. You might use this in a film to show an intense or different way of showing a clip so it will create a cool mood or idea when watching it. The effects can mix up your video for a better overall theme or mood

Final Draft The Crew

directors cut

"Thinking about Our Final Values Video."

Positive Comments:
Music was played at the very beginning of the video, used to help emphasize that they were going to go do something mischevious. Very edgy music. It worked because that's exactly what they went to go do. Michaela C and Ashley T.
. Overall, the music you chose worked very well with the film. -Kelsey and Kaycee
overall we thought you're video was sweet short and right to the point. -Isaiah S, and Cesar J.
The most important use of music was when the camera zoomed in on the dip. It was used to create a sense of comic relief. It worked very well because everybody in the audience laughed. Jake and Alex
We especially like the close ups of Michaela and Chris talking. John and Joselyn
The music was changed for some parts to give different feelings. It worked because it made me feel like i was nervous for the main character. Jacob D and Morgan D

Suggestion:
One edit we would've changed was the abrupt ending at the end. We felt that the out point was very quick. Michaela C and Ashley T

You didn't have any titles at the beginning, but the ones at the end were good, and everything was cited properly. -Kelsey and Kaycee

our strongest suggestion for you is add to the part when they throw away the chew Isaiah S, and Cesar J

There werent any titles in this video Jake and Alex

Two positive comments that we liked were from Isaiah S, and Cesar J. they said "overall we thought you're video was sweet short and right to the point." This was very helpful to us because that was the main point we were going for . We wanted people to get the point quickly and have some fun while watching it.

Also the comments by Michaela C and Ashley T. they said "Music was played at the very beginning of the video, used to help emphasize that they were going to go do something mischevious. Very edgy music. It worked because that's exactly what they went to go do." We really liked this advice because we thought the music flowed very well in our video and it gave us some extra confidence. And We planned the emphasice on the on the mishevious activity in the classroom.

The suggestion by Kelsey and Kaycee was helpful, they said "You didn't have any titles at the beginning, but the ones at the end were good, and everything was cited properly." This was helpful because now we know that adding some titles in the begining would enhance our video.

Another good suggustion was by Isaiah S, and Cesar J they said "our strongest suggestion for you is add to the part when they throw away the chew" this was helpful because we realize that the throwing away of the chew might not have been very clear or too vauge. This gives us a suggustion to show a can being tossed to make that fact known.

Rough Draft

Reflection Chris and Cole
1. the val
ue that we are trying to represent is courage. We wanted to show that it always smart to do what you honestly feel is right. Even though there are many pressures (Chew), you can always hold on to your own morals and do what is right. "Its not always cool to do whats right but its not always right to do what is cool." With this we hope to show people at this school that you can say NO!
2.My group has done many things well in this video. We took advantage of our different types of shots and applied them to this film. We used such shots as Close up, Medium, Long shot and others. Also we took advantage of music and setting in thid video. First off we used a couple types of music to show the different themes and strong points of the video, such as playing the bluegrass music during the scene where the chew is pressented, and The metal when we are ditching the class room. Next the setting helped us show the points we were at. The classroom was obvious and really helped show the fact that we were ditching. The scene in the alley showed a tough and rebel-like place where there was a feeling of wrong-doing.
3.We still need to complete a few things. We would like to go back and take a few more shots to maybe show a different vantage point of feeling during the film. Also we need to maybe work on the transitions a little bit more. We can add some more to the classroom scene if we have time, like maybe put a little more suspense in the ditching part..... Maybe us getting almost caught or questioned by the teacher or a campus supervisor.
4.We are Most in need
of feedback on the different types of camera shots and angles we used and possibly suggestions on new ones we could add or change in our video. We were also wondering if the music fit in the scenes that we put it in and how to add or fix it to make it better. What would be a good title for our video or is one really necessary?
Most in need
5. A challenge that our group had was finding music to fit our video and all of its scenes. we took a while going through all of the sites suggested on the class blog. We didint know which would fit the best. There were a lot of ideas throughout our group but in the end we ultimately chose the bluegrass and metal to show the tone or mood in the scenes where we have the music or actiong describing our value

Over The Shoulder Exercise CSchlegel

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? My group decided to write down all of the shots we should do and then compare them to the script we got so they would match up. I realized that you need to take into account the background and setting when creating the shot. You need to plan it all out so you can just get into the shooting instead of waiting and trying to freeball the shots.

Look at the composition of your over the shoulder shots. Did you follow the rule of thirds? Why or why not? In our shots we did not follow the rule of thirds that well. We could of moved our actors a little bit to the left or right so they would line up on the grid and be the main focal point instead of the setting that seem to happen in our video. like the people walking by or the building.

What IMPRESSIONS do the over the shoulder shots create about the characters? How does this work? The over the shoulder shot creates a tone between the two characters. Brad seemed to be a little more stern in delivering the message while Mikaela was very attentive in trying to figure out the news. This works by showing their facial expressions and their emotions while they deliver the dialogue to each other.

How realistic does the dialogue seem in the final edit? What challenges did you have in editing? The dialogue in our video seems pretty realistic in some spots, but in others it cuts kinda rough and may have skipped parts of their dialogue in some places. The challenges i had were the pieces of video were soo short that it was hard to edit them very cleanly, and the video was overall pretty short in length.

Is there a dominant mood or tone to your video? What is that mood or tone? How did you accomplish this? The mood in our video was a serious one. Brad wanted to deliver the news of the money while Mikaela wanted to figure out exactly how much and when she was going to get the money her aunt left her. We accomplished this by having them talk in a straight voice and a kinda low tone.

What other observations do you have about using over the shoulder shots? The other observations that i have about using the over the shoulder shot would be that it is great in the way that it shows the characters expressions in videos and their reactions to the other person talking to them. Also i noticed that the shot uses a lot of close cuts and edits if you want it to look really good.

What other ideas got emphasized or reinforced about how to make effective videos from doing this exercise? Other ideas that emphasize how to make effective videos would be the edits and clear cuts in this style of video shooting. Also the idea of shooting straight at the actors faces and getting their mood and overall tone express through the videos.