Video Semester 1 Final

What I Did This Whole Time

This semester I did some projects and made some videos. They were halfway decent at best considering the fact that I am not that good at video. I was really stressed about the videos we did this semester because I'm not very good at more serious news like stuff.

Diversity Feature

This project was to make a feature piece on a topic of our choice. My group chose to do it over diversity at ONW but it ended up not being exactly what we wanted it to be. It took a little bit over two weeks to complete I think. We had lots of trouble getting things done and finding time to film everything. Along the way I learned more about filming interviews and how much planning is important to do and keep track of what needs to be done when. Feedback I was given was to fix audio and find a way to make it more of a feature piece since it didn't read as one. I didn't change much because I didn't have time to do so.

Word From the Halls

 

My groups part of hour 7 ONW Now was the word from the halls portion. It took about a week to plan, film, and edit it to completion. The most challenging thing that we dealt with was that we couldn't adjust the white balance on the camera and some footage was really really bad. During this project I learned how difficult it can be to film interviews that aren't planned where we all sit down and have set expectations for what would happen. Feedback we were given was that the final video was really grainy and the white balance quality was questionable. We attempted to change the white balance and failed miserably so we deleted more footage.

Overall Opinion

My opinion on my work this semester is that a lot of it looked like a dumpster fire but there were a couple of videos that didn't suck as much as the rest so that's good. Hopefully next semester I'll do a better job with my videos.

Class Time

During class I did what I need to do to complete all of my projects. I never wanted to be one of the people who had to export half a video just to turn it in on time. I never had to find a way to be productive when done early because I was literally never done early. Outside of class I don't really do much to enhance my skills in video because I have no time to do so with everything else I have to take care.

Strengths and Weaknesses

My strengths in video are honestly few and far between but that's okay. I guess I'm good at editing and I have a basic understanding of how to make a video better when editing. I maximize my strengths by editing when I have the chance to get better at it.

My weaknesses are plentiful. I'm not very good at working the camera, I suck at planning, and I am honestly horrible at script writing. I need to just work on those areas more to improve in them.

Sophomore ONW Now Experience

My experience with our edition of ONW Now was a decent one I guess. My role was kind of director and script writer if you can even call it that. My team made the High School Musical edition of Word From the Halls which was pretty fun. I learned how to film that type of interview as well as how to edit this type interview. So all of that team work was great and I enjoyed it until we had to go down and film the actual news show. That part was horrible and all of that yelling was a lot.

Semester Summary

I loved making word from the halls because it was really laid back and probably the most efficient project I was a part of making this semester. If I could change things form this semester I would try and fi the quality of my clips as well as film so much more b-roll since finding more of it was hard to do. My take away from this semester is that I am 100% not built to do news related videos. My goal for next year is just to make quality videos that are worth watching. Like I truly just want something to be proud of.