Mr. Holt has had us learn how to work Adobe After Effects. I have wanted to get to learn this program but I had no reason to work it. After this little course Holt has had us go through i feel a little more confident and recognize the program. I feel like i have a good understanding of the adobe programs and it feels amazing. After Effects is not my favorite but knowing it will definitely help me be a jack of all trades in the adobe programs. My favorite part would have to be learning all these new techniques. This will be very useful in the future. The worst part is just getting used to a new program. I feel very overwhelmed with so many buttons on the screen. Just like premiere pro i was overwhelmed but i got used to it. I am hoping in the future i can get really good at all the major programs. I also really liked that the guy gives really good tutorial but he does need to fix his microphone levels it is way too low. I had everything at full volume and he was still too quite. He also talked very slow.
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This video was a project for a competition Mr. Holt had for us. He made us make a short story and the one who made the best short story will win some money prize. This project had a lot of preparation and a lot of music. The hardest part would be that i decided to make this a silent short story. This was really good for my editing practice. The easiest part of this project would be probably the editing. Finding music was also a very hard and fun part because its really hard to find the right type of music. I think i switched music and changed them a lot. Another hard part would be that braylin got a haircut on our second to last day of recording. You can notice this after he got the camera and he put the hood over his head and made it seem very unnoticeable. I just love how we kept braylin in the same clothes while i kept changing clothes and wigs throughout the video. This was overall a very well prepared project and the result of that came with a very good video.
I got back from Christmas break and i feel very confident and ready to film some great films. I have a lot of ideas to start the second semester. The biggest idea I have is when I was watching some fortnite videos about the World Cup. I loved how they made the video and I thought about doing one similar but with me and put it on the about me page on my website. I have to make this film very high quality and professional. One of the ideas that came to my mind is to have the black bars on the video. The other thing that is going is on a short film competition between our classes in Mr. Holts class. I feel as if i have a big advantage over everybody because i am very experienced. I do not know what I am going to do it about but I do know its going to be great and the quality of the video will be my best. My partners for the short story will be brailyn and Isidro. With brailyn's great acting and my great camera work and editing we will make greatness and isidro is kind of a new person but i will show him how to make greatness.
The vaping news story is a very good project. I worked with Taylor and Misti. They both helped me film the video and were very good. I edited most of it and it took me a little bit to complete because of all the interviews. I wanted to do a vaping news story for this project because this is a big deal in our school. This really informs other of what the vaping situation looks like on a school point. The Editing done was very easy nothing too complicated. I had a hard time getting the interviews in because a lot of them were kinda hard to cut in some places. It sounded like i cut them off while in the middle of talking. I had to get some of the interviews out because of that. My favorite part about this project is that i got it done so fast. I edited really quick with making the time i had in class to edited it very important. Having 3 classes in here is a big deal because i can get a project done in 2 days or around 4 hours.
The school shooting PSA was made by Braylin and me. Me and him needed a project idea and a PSA is what we wanted to do. We wanted to show signs of a school shooting. We looked up signs of a school shooting and we basically showed them on the video. This gives people a visual representation of what someone who could potentially be a danger to the school. This video was very simple and Braylin was a great actor during this. He did everything i told him to do right. The editing was very easy not too hard just putting clips together then BOOM there was the video. The hardest thing is finding the sound effects for the guns. This was a real challenge because our school restricts some websites to get sounds.
The Scott City football promo was a fun one to make. This idea came all from the top of my head to make this. All the music i got from this video is from a new site Mr. Holt bought this year its called Artlist.io. This site had very good artist and songs. The music really made this video and that is how i edited my clips. You can see the little cuts i made to the beat or some beat to the song. The start says this is were the journey begins and this means that in the weight room is where it all begins. I had many clips of football boys doing push ups and lifting weights. The second song was to get you very pumped up. I loved how i started the second one off with the text and the little walk up clip of the football players walking up. The next few clips are a little highlights i found in some of the games we've played this year. I tried making them short for the sake of keeping someone interested. The longer the clip the more tired the audience attention could be lost. Overall this video was made in less than 4 hours all working in class time. The editing was not that hard just simple effects and cuts. I am a very fast editor so this is the best and easiest part for me. That's kinda my biggest weakness is that i get projects edited so fast that i have a bunch of time where i can't do anything. I just work so fast that i am waiting half the time to get the clips or interviews for most of my project. It sometimes seem like i am lazy but i am not. I just edit too fast :/.
Daily Beaver was a project that it thought about doing over the summer. This project consist of combining funny or school related stories. I had people suggest some stories to do. In this episode i introduce the new teachers and i ask them a few questions about them. I might sound a little sad or unemotional during the video and that is because i had a bad day. I should of re recorded it but i have been delaying the video for so long. I had troubles with microphones not working and or it being too loud and the microphone sounding distorted. It was really hard having to interview someone when i can't do anything after school because i have practice. The spoon and fork one was were my interviews were hard to get and i had the most microphone problems in these interviews. In conclusion this project taught me a lot and showed me what mistakes i was making but at the end of it i was learning about the microphones and that i should be more organized. I will try to improve these next time i do the interviews and try to get my interview schedule improved. The only problem i have about moving to episode 2 of the daily beaver is that it will need to think about ideas. I do have a paper outside my classroom about this project for people to suggest ideas or stories they want me to do. The best thing about this project is that i can be as funny or do anything i so desire. The worst thing is that i need to be careful about what i talk about in these. I can not talk about drama or big things that go around the school.
The Soccer in Scott City project was a big project i had in mind. The project was meant to announce that kids cant continue soccer after 6th grade. We had a lot of interviews but some of them got delayed which made it hard for us to continue on our project. After we got the interviews we needed we worked on it. I let Emmanuel take the lead for this and allowed him to edit the project. I wanted him to learn premiere pro while working on a project and i showed him how to make a news video. I was mainly the companion for this so i don't take any credit for the editing since Emmanuel and me have very different editing techniques. This project was fun but it was kinda hard to agree on some of the project.
In the underage drinking project i teamed up with emannuel francis. Me and him made a video which got put into a competion. The video we were trying to make is a underage drinking video. We had a great idea of making a flashback scene which is quick and delivered the message to the viewer. This video was fun and matching action was a big part about it. THe car scene was the funniest thing to do. The only difficult part we had was the car scene were you can see through the windows. The fix to this was making the flashback scene really white to make it seem like a flashback.This project i did by myself. The idea just came from thinking about how others live in big cities. I just thought to myself that what if i made a video about my town and how its like living here. The project was really fun and i got it done fast. I enjoy working by myself because i dont need to agree with another person about different ideas. The interviews went amazing they spoke clearly and all answered my questions. |