Final Values Video Project.

Rough Draft Values

Reflection on Rough Draft Video

We currently have not been able to post our video due to technical difficulties and problems like not finding our camera when we are supposed to dump and edit the day the sub was here. The value we are representing is giving out a helping hand to others in need and passing on kindness and compassion. We show how a girl helps out a peer from school when she gets bullied and harassed even though the girl helping was in a hurry to get home. We have work hard and steadily as a team and and we've managed to stay after school to film at least 3 times so far and we've spent hours trying to get it right. We've filmed really well in my opinion and we definatly know how to communicate ideas with each other so we bring out the very best of this project. Eddy works very well with the camera, Cynthia always has great ideas, Estefania does good acting, and I give good tips to make our camera angles better and to make out video seem like real time. Overall,we all do a great job. What we might be a little behind on is editing because we have'nt even been able to get started. We have'nt been able to upload our clips because on the first day we had to finsih filming, when Ms. Nelson was our sub our cameras were missing and we didn't have access to the clips, and the class after that the computers were being really slow. These are all the negative things that have held us back. We still need to complete the entire editing process, but we have all our music and sound ready and we will begin to work on our titles. A challenge we faced in creating our film is making the illusion of real time since we filmed on different days. I had to bring the same clothes i wore the day before and the lighting mightve been a bit different since one was in the afternoon and the other was in the morning during class time. We also had to position ourselves the same way we were before which was tough. We did the best we could do we have not looked over these clips since we have not been able to do so. Another challenge we had on how to best tell our story was whether we should have more people ignoring and making fun of the lonely girl or not. It was going to be hard to get al those people together if we had to re do a scene so we decided that it would work just as well without all the extras and we changed our setting to after school outside instead of during lunch at the lunch tables.

Sequence 01

 This video is not ours because we couldn't find our tape, but we did shoot our over the shoulder shots. We planned our shots by placing ourselves to the side of the camera while we were facing each other. We shot away from the sun.\, like Dr.A suggested us to. We didn't get to realize anything after about our shots because we never got to actually watch and edit our video. Instead, we used Cody's and Bree's. For the first shot, which was the shaking hands shot, they did follow the rule of thirds, as you can see theyre not really centered. But then, when they started doing their over the shoulder shots, Bree was very towards the center, leaving a lot of space to her left which can cause a lot of distractions to the audience.
  Cody was also very centered and in the backround there was people walking around and it also caused a lot of distrations. The focus was also on Bree's head, and Cody seemed blurry.
   The Impression that over the shoulder shots create on characters is that there is a conversation going on and it allows us to catch the mood and tone. It can make characters seem small. or very big and dominant. It also allows us to see the facial expressions to make us see how they are taking what is being said to them. This works by how the people are set up in front of the camera, and reaction shots are on the people that are being talked to, not the one talking.
 The dialogue seemed realistic in the final edit, challenges we had in the final edit was not making it seem so awkward on the scene transition from the greeting to the I have some news, because the characters seem to suddenly be in different positions. The tone in this video is kind of serious, but dull, and then it gets interesting because Bree gets excitied when she finds out about the money.
  Other realizations that I made about over the shoulder shots are that it is important that there is not a lot of empty space to the side of a character because audiences eyes tend to go to all distractions going on with all activities beside them and it adds awkwardness.
 I learned that to make an effective video the cuts need to be quick,  the rule of thirds must be follwed, and it must be decided if to want characters to be equal or if you want one to be more dominant then the other.

Reflection on Holiday Greeting Video

I feel that me and my partner did a good job in working together to get in done and staying after school since we didn't finished. I feel that we did a good job in explaining it and added a bit of creativity with different pictures of what we talked about. I think our title came out good and I thought it was creative, i also think we did a good job on citing everything because we didn't leave anything out. We didn't quite have time to put sound in but that's okay.

   i would've liked to add sound and make it more interesting like some other groups. I especially liked what Eddy's group did with the music and what Cody's group did with the dancing. What I did to create our video was helped look for backrounds and did a lot of the editing, me and my partner both. I stayed after school once to get editing done, my partner stayed twice, i couldn't the second time but im glad she was able to get it done and i think she did a good job in putting the other pictures in. I helped in making Laura less invisible, we did the best we could but blue is not a good color to wear with a greenscreen. i helped my partner by editing our filming and getting all the set in and set out points right and my locating the best pictures we could find. She helped me with the after effects with the greenscreen because i wasn't very good at that she knew a little more than i did. She helped me with the color keying and balance on greenscreen effects and taught me how it worked.

What I would do differently if i had a another chance to do this profect is talk louder surung my filming and practice my script more so it wouldnt be so awkward. Overall I am proud of what we did and im glad about our teeamwork and that we were able to get it done on time, my partner was very helpful and i hope she thinks the same of me. We worked hard on this project and im proud of our result.

Cyberbullying What You Need To Know 1

The parts of the video that I am most proud of is the editing and the effective sound effects. I am also very proud of our group work and we did a very good job and i am proud of getting 1st place in our class. Comments from others that were helpful were to extend some scenes for greater effects. Changes we made on our final video were extended the clip where I am depressed and isolated and put the prevention tips in their own individual slide. if we had another day or two i don't think we would change much. Maybe we would add a more variety of interviews. if we had the chance to do this project all over again I think we would do everything the same but a bit more varietyof clips.  What I discovered about creating videos is that teamwork and organization is very important and enthusiasm helps a lot. Other thoughts I have about my project is that I really hope it's effective and people get the message because i realized that some people might not take it very seriously still.

greenscreen 01.f4v

A green screen works by setting a green backround and being able to replace the green with a picture or clip. The most important considerations are not to wear similar colors to screen and making sure there are no shadows or wrinkles on the screen. Problems that can arise when trying to eliminate a green screen is deleting too much and making a part of a person disappear. The after effects are easier then using premeire pro because it eliminates the color easily and automatically. Using green screen will come in handy and it seems interesting and fun.