Words of Wisdom

For words of wisdom, the person we interviewed was Phil Villatora, my step dad. He talked about how we need to be sustainable in Hawaii so we don't waste all the natural resources that we have. We shot our interview and our b-roll at my house on the same day. When we got into FCPX, we didn't have enough b-roll. >:(. We planned to shoot all this cool stuff at Karlie's house, it was raining. We ended up getting 2 or 3 more sequences that day.

Five Tips For

For our 5 tips for video, me, Karlie and Brittain chose the topic "5 tips for keeping your room clean", Which is very ironic, because my room is always a mess. In our digital sketchbook, we had to come up with ideas. Everyone had to do this independently. When we came together as a group, Brittain had dealing with dyslexia, and both me and karlie had clean rooms.

Practice Profile Story

The purpose of the practice story was to help us understand how hard it was to film an interview. Our interview was very blurry and that helped us remember to make sure that our real project wasn't out of focus.We chose me as the subject of the practice story because I was the most comfortable on camera.  I had a song stuck in my head and thats how we came up with the subject of me loving music. Click Here to see examples of my G.T. class' profile practice stories.

Profile Project Progress

My team and I chose my step dad, Phil Villatora as our interview subject.  We chose him because we had no other options. Karlie's family lives in Delaware, Erin's is in Michigan and mine is all in New york.  The project we were assigned is elder words of wisdom, and we filmed at my house on the 24th.  The purpose of the project is for the interviewee is tell ing elder words of wisdom to the viewer. He was giving words on why people should be sustainable to care for the land more.

The technical parts of B-Roll is that you have to set up and plan your 3 shot sequences and go from wide to medium to close. also, focusing your shots are key. For the voice over technicalities, you have to talk clearly. You have to sound rehearsed, but not like a robot. You have to talk naturally which can be very hard when you have a camera in front of you. Also, if you don't have enough B-Roll, you have to show a shot of the voice overs, so you have to frame the shot right.

To work with my team better, we can maybe work completely on different things like karlie on B-roll description. Erin fixing the drawings and me editing. Communication can maybe be better. Sometimes I don't know what they are doing. We can also make more compromises.

To improve our video, we can re-organize our B-Roll so it matches what he is saying.  also, we can leave our story exactly how it is. On the Critique, we got mainly perfects for story. We also need to turn down his audio levels, because it is vey loud.

Composition Techniques

One of the most important composition techniques is Rule of Thirds. This is when you place your main subject not directly in the dead center of the shot, but place them slightly off to one side. This makes the shot more interesting and unique. You use rule of thirds to make your shots more interesting, that will leave people wanting more!

Another important composition technique is Framing. Framing is putting your main subject in a frame, by finding something that goes around them- like an arch, or a bush under it. This is important because it makes the photos more captivating, and makes really nice, dramatic shots. More people want to watch when it looks cool!

The next important composition technique is Leading lines. This is having a line that is already in the shot, that leads your eyes to the main subject. This is important to do because it makes the shots more interesting and look amazing.

The last of the main 4 composition techniques is unusual angles. This is when you shoot at an angle that you wouldn't see when you just look at something strait on. This is like looking from the roof of a building other than next to it. This is important because it makes people want to see more!

Three Shot Sequences

Three shot sequences is when there are three shots in an order that makes an action. In the video, The first shot is me walking to the door. Then me opening the door, Then walking in. We made a minor mistake. The order was supposed to be wide, medium, close. But we did wide, close, then medium. Putting 3 shot sequences makes it more interesting, and make sense.

Practice Story Reflection

The assignment we had to interview one person in our team about something they like or do. My group chose to interview me about how I love music. They were asking me questions and I was answering by restating the question. We placed the interview in the library because it was quiet in there. We did my B-Roll around the campus because I was doing a variety of things.

The audio needs to be perfect - Not too loud, not too soft. That was the main thing we had trouble with. Karlie was absent, so it was up to me and Erin to edit it all. We finished editing, or so we thought. When we watched it, the audio was way off, so we had to delete our first export.We had to go back, and adjust the volume on each and every piece of video.

From doing this project I learned that working in film editing is really hard. You think it'll be the easiest thing, but this, to me, was the hardest assignment this your in GT. The key aspect to this project is teamwork and cooperation. I think if our whole team was there, and Karlie was there, we would've done a little bit better.