feature story

feature story

the project process 

When we were assigned this project we were asked to do a feature story on someone in our class. First we sat down and asked our partner a bunch of general questions such as hobbies, favorite food, and favorite color. After taking notes on basic questions we had to find one topic to focus on. While finding a topic we had to keep in mind that we would be needing lots of b roll and natural sound for the interview. I ending up choosing band as my partners topic. I thought it would be great since dance team performs with the band so I was familiar with the topic. Another advantage I had was that I already had lots of footage from the competitions to use in my video. I knew that I could get great natural sound of her playing her base drum. After I settled on that topic I started to story board. It ending up taking me longer to story board than it did to edit the video. Having a storyboard makes editing the video a lot easier because you have all of the clips in the order that you want. 

what I learned

I learned a lot about video production by doing this project. I learned what goes into an interview such as b roll, natural sound, voice overs, a lower third, and the actual interview. I also learned when and how to use all of these things in adobe premiere, like when you want to add b roll you have to put the clip over the interview clip to see the b roll but still hear the interview. Before this project I thought that an interview was just a video of an interviewer asking someone questions. Now I know that there is a lot more that goes into an interview. I also learned a lot of professional things while working on this project. Having a partner comes with using collaboration and team work. I like doing projects like these because you get to learn how to work with different kinds of people. Obviously we made different videos for this project but we still had to use collaboration. We had to ask each other questions and make sure that the answers answered the question well so that the other persons video would flow nice and really tell a story. We also used teamwork by helping each other set up the camera, tripod, and whenever something acted up we tried to fix it. 

what I liked and disliked

There are lots of things I liked about my project but there are also a few things I didn't like. I really liked all of the b roll I had, I had some from football game performances, competitions, and videos of us celebrating a win at our final competition. I also liked that I had a lot of natural sound clips of her playing her drum. I had a nice variety or angles and different songs that she played. I also thought that the interview was set up nice with nice lighting and my partner answered my questions very well. The things I disliked about my video were the voice overs I had. My first and last voice overs were nice because I had an easy time introducing and closing the interview. But I had a hard time thinking of things to say to put the middle clips together without saying what was happening in the next clip. I ended up starting my video over because the day before it was due it deleted off of the computer. But I ended up having more time to produce my video. I also kept a part in that was a little repetitive but I didn't notice until I presented my video. For the next project I am going to take more time recording my voiceovers and watch my video multiple times to look for repetitive parts or errors so I can take them out. 

overview

Overall this project was really fun to make. I had a great time learning more about band and what its like to be on drum line. I didn't realize how much went into an interview. The project was a lot of work but I really liked doing it. I'm looking forward to doing more projects like this in the future.