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.

CSchlegel Greeting

Reflection for final: I feel that I did a good job on the editing of my clips. They flowed well into the next frame and sounded nice together. Also I think my credits were done well. I cited all of my sources correctly and put them in correct oreder. I would of liked to of added music to my video. I didint have enough time to do it on this video but i will in the future. I liked this a lot because it catches the viewers attention and gives them someting nice to listen to while watching the video. I did all of the stuff in my groups video because it was just me. I was alone on my video so i helped myself. I would of added a few more scenes to the video if i had another chance. Or i would of liked to make my credits rolling or disappear like some of the other videos did. The last thing that i would of added would be a nice title i didint add one but would of liked to so that i could grab the people's attention.

Greenscreen workshop

Reflection: A green screen is a special tool that lets you create a background of anything. You film with a large green cloth behind you and with the green screen tools on the computer and on adobe after effects you can place any background on your clip or film. The important considerations are what you are wearing and how the background will look with your clip. The problems that can arise with eliminating a bakground would be acccidently blacking out or shading over a character and taking an arm or piece of the background out. Adobe premeire pro was easier to use for me because i have used it a lot before.

Cyberbullying Final Draft

Reflection: I am most proud of our editing of this video. We spent a lot of time doing this part of the video and it paid off pretty good I think. Also I liked the music and sounds we chose for our video. They went well with the video and importnant parts. The comments that helped us out a lot in the final draft were the ones that told us that some facts or a different break between our interviews would help. After we read that we added facts and it flowed a lot better. On the final video we changed the flow of the interviews and we shortened some of the sounds. If I had another day or two I would of made the credits a little better maybe rolling credits. If I had to do it all over again I would not of done much differently it was a good video in my opinion. I realized that it is a process to make and edit a video and you cant just do it and get it over with. I think our project had many good ways to get the message across that we wanted to tell.

what i learned from this video was a couple of things. One thing was the choice of backgrounds. This video had a lot of great sunny and green backgrounds that really helped to add to the overall shot of the scene.

As well as that i like the choice of people to interview. For example when they interviewed sparky it was great. It added a special touch especially because we had just gone to that assembly the week before.

I learned a few things from this video! First was the way that they had a group of students or people to emphasize their meaning. The way it had the students walk to class was cool and showed a school atmosphere.

Also was the music and audio effects. The use of dramatic music really helped me focus in and know that what was being said was very important. The music also kept me interested because it was not boring at all and kinda upbeat at times.

one thing that ive learned from this video would be the editing and combining of a varety of different interviews. This group did a great job at it and it flowed very well throughout the video. The interview that went from a student to the emloyee of the school was good and worked well to mix it up.