Feature Story #2

For my second feature story I did it over the volleyball club South Kc. I wanted to show what an amazing club and environment it is every day. I showed B-roll of volleyball and coaching also about the conditioning. 
My narrative lead was very strong and a powerful voice for this video because I am a part of this club and wanted to speak very passionately about it.
For my first interview I did it over 2 players on the 17 team Oliva, and Jaden. I wanted these girls to tell about there experience and they complimented each other nicely because of there friendship and teamwork.My second interview was a parent of South Kc. I wanted to tell this point of view because the viewers are also parents. This was very strong because of how strongly she felt about her daughter being on this volleyball club. 
Shooting my video was very fun with my team. It was especially fun using my go pro and using and editing amazing shots for my b-roll. 
My class enjoyed my video but also felt the sound was off at certain pints whited I fixed the levels. 
I loved shooting and editing this video in all the different aspects. I hope you enjoy my video and learn a lot about this amazing volleyball club, South Kc. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fiesJKal0M

Feature Story Experience

For this video I chose my topic over my good friend, Jamie barman. I chose her because I admire her work ethic and athleticism but mostly her aspirations. Jamie and her friend Sydney both complimented the video very nicely with there charm and answers. I felt the video show cased a lot of Jamie's skills as a soccer player. 

My script and voiceover was difficult to make and took thinking. I like my voiceover but it could have been stronger. Shooting my video with two of my best friends was extremely fun and the best experience I've ever had filming a video. We laughed a lot and had a lot of bloopers but the video turned out amazing.

I absolutely love my camera angles they were very faltering. My favorite part of the video was my b-roll. The b-rool shows Jamie's skills and really holds the video together.

My written feature story was definitely different from the video expense but was still fun to write. The concepts were the same but for my written story i had to use imagery because you don't have the visual you did when watching the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w836ymqadlw

How To Organize Your Clips In Primere Pro

Organizing your clips when making a video in Premiere Pro is extremely important. Bins can help you create a begging, a middle, and an end. Bins can also help you organize and separate your favorite clips, audio clips and more. 

The first thing you need to do is create a new bin to do this go down to the bottom right of the properties panel and click the new bin icon that looks like a folder. If you need to delete a bin drag it to the trash icon on the right.

Next you can change the name like I did above to name the certain types of clips going into each bin.  

To add clips to each bin simply click and drag the clip to the folder icon then drop it on top of it.

To organize bins further you can change the color to the left of the bin. To do this click Primere pro then preferences then label colors then chose a color swatch    (I chose purple).

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I interviewed Ashley Augustene. She took me through her exciting and eventful lake trip to Table rock with her friends. The most eventful part of the trip was when her phone dropped on the sea dew. Luckily her phone was safe!

I learned that Ashley loves the lake and it meant a lot to her to relax there before she had to start school and marching band. My video was really fun to shoot with Ashley.

The voiceover was anew experience for me but i was surprised how easy it was. I encourage others to use it in there future videos because of the good quality and if you want to talk in the background.https://youtu.be/dung9YRD2Qw

Photo Shop Tutorials

During these tutorials I got extremely close to photoshop. I learned tens of new shortcut keys and tools. I learned that there is so many ways to improve and in hanse a photograph. 

Three key tools that I learned how to use were the spot healing brush, the lasso tool, and the rectangular marquee Tool. The spot healing brush was extremely helpful whenever there was a spot that was different then everything else around it, say a branch sticking out of someones head. In this case you option click the sky and simply brush away the branch. Another tool I used was the lasso tool. Simply pressing the short cut key of L now you can free handily select areas to move,copy or even delete them. The next tool the rectangular marquee tool allows us to select things as a simple shape, rectangle unlike the free hand lasso tool.

My favorite skill is selecting areas using the lasso tool say off a wall or mud on a child's face and removing them. It feels like your are cleaning the picture. This will be valuable in graphic design because if there is little spots of clothing or on a logo that you want to remove this is an easy way of doing it.

My strengths were listening and following intently to the tutorials  step by step. If I didn't understand a step I would back up the video. My weaknesses were definitely the time crunch because I felt I was rushing at the end. Another weakness was keeping track of which layer I'm working on I would frequently do a step to the wrong layer.

If I were to do this again I would have gone threw them all faster so that in the end I could either re do some or touch them up. I would keep my focus the same because I did a really good job working hard I wish I watched the video through first then did it if I had more time.

In all I learned a lot and loved doing all of the tutorials.

Before I used illustrator to alter this picture the backdrop was not all white.

The logo was originally set lower so I moved it up and fixed the line in the middle to be strait.

Before I used illustrator to alter this picture there was no logo on the surfboard.

In this picture the backdrop had little things on it that I removed to make it look cleaner.

In the original picture there was multiple tags in the pocket and on the side.

In the original photo this man had a big ugly logo on his shirt that I then removed and added wrinkles to make it look natural.

Before I used illustrator to fix picture the little boy had mud all over his face that I smoothed out.

Before I altered this picture there was a huge tower sticking out of the mans head.

Before,  there was nothing on the ocean background, I added the bottle added the logo and used tools to brighten and place the bottle behind the ocean. 

Originally this was a blank billboard I added the photo and made the edges round to fit the billboard.

This was the longest tutorial but turned out the best. This was originally separate photos that i turned into one. I also altered her shoulders, hair, hat, and color of everything. 

Re-Filling Your Water Bottle

The "scope" of the project was making a video showing something you could do at ONW to make it a better place. For this project my partner Leah and I decided to show how to re fill your water bottle so you do not waste plastic. 

Beginning

Middle

End

For our process we started our brainstorming ideas and putting them all down on our story boards. Some things we talked about were where we were going to start, the actress, 6 shots system and finally the 180 degree rule. I learned how to white balance and focus the new cameras. I also learned that Leah and I work very well as a group. 

If I were to do it again  would have allowed more time to film. I would do this is get more camera shots for a better video. I would keep my editing pretty much the same I liked how the final project came out. 

For my next projects i will take away my experience with the new camera and new editing software. I had fun making this video and remember to re-fill your water bottle.

Reflection

Our team name was LIT and our product was the shwamock. As a team we all worked well together separating jobs fairly and helping each other out. We struggled with deadlines working very and at end to finish. Next time i would try my best to finish everything quickly then take our time making it perfect.I would change our presentation and work harder and practice more on it. I have improved in my animation skills since i did it first quarter I got a refresher and made some of the things in our animation. Ainsley made the logo and I made the words curve like hammock does. I also made our coupon and was the actor in our comercial.