Music Video (Compressed)

This video was very difficult to work with because the video was very hard to compress from three minutes to ninety seconds. I had to cut out a lot of clips and add in a lot of transition slides so the story could be told within ninety seconds. I feel like there is too many transition slides in the compressed version, about every 10 seconds is a transition which averaged out to be about 15 transition slides throughout the whole video. The markers were hard to deal with because the clips would be too short and would make the video look a little funky being cut at the markers. The easiest part of the video was deleting all the clips in the scenes that weren't necessary and also making the clips shorter and deleting all the unnecessary time that was being used in clips. The collaboration improved with this because we had to help each other cut out half our video when we were all struggling. I really enjoyed my group, they were a lot of fun to work with and we got done on time too. Working with my group was probably the most fun I had during the making of this film.

Music Video

I thought that the music video idea was a great idea for an assignment in video, it was fun, easy, a little time consuming but overall it was fantastic. We chose this song because we thought it would be fun and easy to do. Working together as a group went amazing and we all got along very well because   we all made ideas together and built ideas off of others' ideas the collaboration was probably the best part of making this video. I probably enjoyed just working with my group the most out of everything I did in this video, my group was a lot of fun. The story of the video is of a high school boy and a high school girl, the boy (played by Drew) gets into a fight with his girlfriend (played by Ally) and after the fight he realizes his mistake that he made and ties to win her heart back by giving her a note. Well she ignores the note and just sticks it back in her locker. He realized that doesn't work so he went out and started buying all these different gifts like chocolate, a teddy bear and roses for her. Unfortunately, that doesn't work so he gives up. Later, the girl sees the note in her locker and realizes that she wants him back too so she goes to look for him, finds him and they get back together and heel click off into the sunset. In this video Drew plays as the high school boy, Ally plays as the high school girl, Diego is the Flirty Hunk/Assistant and I was the Director and played as the store employee. This video was my favorite assignment out of all the other ones that we have done.

The Chase

In the making of "The Chase" I learned how to use ISMFilms and that there are multiple ways to edit your audio. (Such as background noise and music.) I also learned how to use the keys: J, K and L. I learned the "J" is meant for rewinding the video. The key "K" is for pausing the video and that "L" is for fast forwarding the video. On my next project, I plan to have a lot more shots than what I have in this project, I think it is a lot more interesting if you have a bigger variety of shots in your video.
The collaboration with the other 2 partners I had went great. Nothing really changed with the collaboration on this project. (Except that I was a little more quiet with this group.)
On the next project we have I will try to give my input more often so the collaboration is better for the group. The more opinions, the better we talk and collaborate with each other.

Brooke Likes Dancing (6 Shot Sequence)

The 6 shots are over the shoulder, extra close up, close up, medium shot, wide shot and extra wide shot. All of these shots are in the video of Brooke dancing, which she really likes to do! She seems like a hardcore dancer. I reviewed how to use the six shot sequence in this video, and the collaboration with Brooke and Stockton went great, we all got along very well and didn't question each others' work or why we were using a specific shot.

The Pop Quiz (6 Shot Sequence)

This video is called: "The Pop Quiz". It's about a high school student that is in class and the teacher announces a pop quiz. The student freaks out and doesn't know what to circle, so he circles random answers, turns it in and gets a good grade on it. (Starring Drew and Brendan)

While making this video, I learned that story boarding is one of the most important things to do while making a video. Also, I learned to not let Drew get distracted. This video is one of the better videos I have done, this was a fun project!