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.