Monday, November 23, 2015

Writing Center Personal Blog Post


  The scope of this video was to inform the students of Olathe Northwest that there is a new writing center during seminar 2. The pre-production involved writing 21 questions to ask the students and staff I interviewed . I also had to contact Ms. Skogland and Mrs. Kazmier to get more information over the writing center, and I had to schedule a time to film and interview students working in the writing center. During seminar 2 I went down to Ms. Skogland's room and filmed the tutors and students who needed writing help. After I filmed B-Roll I went into the hallway and interviewed 2 students and Ms. Skogland. Post-production involved script writing, filming voice overs, and putting clips together in Final Cut. 

    I should have used a tripod when i filmed B-Roll. I  also should have filmed the interviews sitting down in the writing center. I would have edited the same way because I varied up the 6 shot sequence throughout the video. To enhance my next project I will use a trip-pod and find better lightening for the interviews. 

Professional Blog Post


The Today show filmed this news package to show American citizens how landlords are struggling to keep their residents online packages during this holiday season. To start this news package Gabe Gutierrez opened it up by using a standup of him standing in a room of packages. The video then went into the news package starting with a voice over. One of my favorite parts of this package was the animation that showed how online shopping has increased boxes delivered to apartments by 50% which causes 10 minutes of lost productivity for their workers, and that time adds up to more than 3 million dollars a year. I should add in different animations in my work because it varies up the shots viewers see and captures their attention. I learned why and how to use stand ups in news packages earlier in the year, and I should apply more stand-ups into my news packages. Gutierrez also used the six shot sequence, however he had a lot more zooming and panning that made the shots more interesting. I think the last interview piece that was filmed could have been set up better. There is a lot of head space above the women head because Gabe Gutierrez is a lot taller, so a good solution would be to sit both of them down. Overall I believe watching different news packages will help me develop videography skills and give me ideas for future packages. Source Cited: Gutierrez, Gabe. "Landlords Refusing to Accept Packages amidst Deluge of Deliveries." TODAY.com. Gabe Gutierrez, 22 Oct. 2015. Web. 16 Nov. 2015.

Barbara Walters Most Interesting People

Summary

This video was about the "10 most interesting people", with the host Barbara Walters. It began talking about each person's background, also went on to more personal projects associated with that person. Finally, it would move on to more of their accomplishments and how they achieved those things. 


The stories were told about other people's lives. It was set up in an interview form, with the host asking questions, and also clips and pictures from that person's past. 

Application

I like how the interviews were set up, and how the clips used helped tell the story of how that person rose to fame. I think I could apply the interview set up to my own work, it seemed to work very well and it was an effective way to help tell the story. I have already learned how to set up a story like this, and also know how to do the voiceovers that were used throughout some of the pictures and videos to describe what was going on. 

Overall

I think that the producers did a very good job telling the stories over the different people's lives, and successfully showed why these people deserved to be on the "Top 10 Most Interesting People" list. I think they could've gone even more in depth in telling people's stories, each person I think could've been analyzed more, to show even more of the things that they had accomplished. Overall, I didn't really agree with who was on the list of Top 10 people, because some of them weren't that interesting, and didn't really deserve to have made that list. But they did a good job telling the story of how those people rose to success.


Actual Video

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/photos/barbara-walters-10-fascinating-people-2014-27319516/image-27320762