Friday, February 7, 2014

Practice Story Reflection

In G.T., we recently started a project where we broke into teams and interviewed one teammate. In my team there were only two people counting myself. For our interview, my teammate (Kora Quintana) interviewed me about a project that we just finished in my art class. For the A roll portion of the video (the interview) we went to the library to film so that we wouldn't have any background noise interfering with our footage. My partner and I worked very well together and worked very quickly.

Instead of arguing and stressing over little details and things like that my partner and I discussed what we would do once we got to the library so when we got there it was easy to get started. I set up the tripod, she put the battery in the camera and attached the camera to the tripod and I put on the mic. After everything was set up, we found a chair and adjusted where I would sit until i was perfectly in the rule of thirds. Next, she started the camera and sat next to the camera to ask me the interview questions. the next day we filmed B roll which didn't go as smoothly...

To film B roll, we went to the art classroom and filmed people working on their projects, finishing up projects, the tools we used and the finished pieces. during the filming of the B roll we both wanted to film the B roll in completely different ways so... there was a bit of arguing. We also ran into troubles with how to adjust the tripod in a way that the footage would look it's best which only made us more stressed. At the end of our B roll filming our footage turned out great! The next day I went home sick before G.T. and Kora came to class to find that our B roll had somehow been deleted. So, Kora had to go back to the art room with only ten minutes to film and no tripod. The footage was shaky and not as nice as our original footage, but we got it done so it all worked out.

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