From A to B

      Recently in e-Communication we were partnered up to make a video where we would be trying to get  from one place to another, in this project I took all the footage while my partner walked form the second floor of the school to our courtyard. We used the 6 shot system and attempted to ry to use he rule of thirds, though I don't think that went well. But overall the project was actually proved to be fun to do and in the end i actually liked how it turned out.

      

The Process

      Getting the camera and stand for it was easy, using it was harder. Unlike in the other video I took for the six shot system, in where we had normal stand the stand that we had in this project was slightly damaged making it harder to stand up correctly. 

      We started at my locker, which was conveniently on the second floor. Writing a quick scribbled note, my partner acted to be surprised then we began the process of walking down the halls and stairs all the way to the courtyard. Getting to the courtyard was harder than you might've imagined since the doors were at first locked, leaving me and my partner on a small journey to find a custodian.

      

What I Learned

      If anything I learned that when making a video like this, it's better to make 50% of it close-ups/extreme close-ups. This makes the video more interesting in a way. Besides that we still used Premiere and the same camera's as last time so I didn't actually learn much this time.

What Could Have Gone Better

      Some of the shots I actually didn't like at all. There's this one shot of going down the stairs, but the camera was angled wrong and it paned the shot. I didn't notice until editing the video, so I'm really annoyed at that shot. And in another shot you can see he camera stand in the background. Giving the chance to that again I would be more careful of the camera and what's in the shot.

The 6 Shot System

Process of Making the Video
      Recently in e-Com we've taken it upon ourselves to make a video that includes the six shot system in it, including all of the shots. While some people for more creative ideas I chose to do something more simple. My video is just me on a laptop using all of the shots which include, wide shot, establishing shot, close up, over shoulder, median shot and extreme close up.

      The filming part was actually kind of annoying since we had to set up the camera at all different angles to make sure we had the different shots. After taking all of the videos in different shots we then went to Adobe Premier to put everything together. It was really easy to do, after placing all the videos in the correct order. From there it was easy to unlink the videos from their sound, take away the sounds and replace it.

What Was New
       Until this assignment I had ever used Adobe Premier before, it proved to be actually very simple to use. We simply dragged the videos into the program and then stated editing it with the tools provided form the program, which included shortening the video and changing the sound. I took out the sound in my video and put in a song that I hope fit the theme of my video.
       Afterwards, uploading the video to youtube, was not new, but putting it on google classroom was actually something I'd never done before and too me sometime to figure out.

What Could've Been Done Better
       I admit that during filming I failed to follow the 180 rule at the end of the video. If I ever am to try this again I will be sure to fix that mistake. Besides that I didn't really like where I had sat during the video. Overall I think I did a decent job.
      We also got feedback of our work from our classmates. Some of the feedback I got was mostly about how the camera was shaky during one of the shots and that the music I chose didn't much fit what I had been doing in the video.

Word Project

Our project in e-Communication was to find a picture, then to make words that describe ourselves float into the picture.

THE PROCESS
Making this video had its easy parts and its hard parts. Starting off with making the words in Adobe Photoshop, I chose ten words that I thought described me fairly well and a photo background of a library. To make the video so as I made it, I used the transform option in the video animation on the timeline. Putting those together proved to be easy, it was just animating it be 10 seconds long that proved to be a challenge for me. Although you can imagine that editing the small video would be easy, and don't get me wrong it is very easy, I just happened to not comprehend my interactions of making the video 10 seconds long.

WHAT WAS NEW
Using the transform option in the video and just doing the video was new for me. I'm used to using frame animations and not video.  At first when looking at the video animation, I initially thought it was going to be more complicated than it actually was going to be. The video was fun to make and the transform option, which is what allowed my project to slide in the way it did, proved to be just as simple to use.

WHAT I WOULD DO DIFFERENTLY
As I said earlier, I had misheard directions and thought that we would be making our video only 6 seconds when actually it was 10. This was a bit challenging to fix, but at the least I now I have future reference to know of what to do if I'm ever to do this project again.