For this video story, my idea was to create a video about my college life. As a sophomore at Washington State University, I have been here for almost two years, and throughout these time I started to like this school more and more. Therefore, I would like to share my college life with all my classmates. For this video story, I planned to interview my two best friends Jackie and Sandra, because they are very important to my college life.
First of all, I created a storyboard for my video at a length of 1:30 minutes, I also wrote a script of the interview question I was about to ask my friends and what I was going to say in the video. When everything was planned out, I went to different places to collect pictures and videos to use in my draft video, I then recorded myself reading the script in order to put together with the recording. After everything was collected, I started to edit all my clips on Adobe Premiere. I put the clips in order and numbered them, then I embedded the recordings so that they could go together with the clips. I also inserted background music when I finished editing the clips so it could give my video a more relaxing vibe. The most challenging part of making the video was to collect all the resources, I had to walk to different places to take videos and pictures. In addition, combining the clips and the recordings together was difficult because I had to keep cutting the clips for them to have the same length as my recording. It also took me a while telling my friends about my project and getting them to practice what they are going to say, but we had lots of fun shooting the clips. What I like about my video was the angle of the shots and the background music. I collected my resources in different places, so that audiences took get a better image of my college view. I also shot my video from different angles to grab the viewers’ attention so that they wouldn’t feel bored watching my video.
I received some comments from my peers in the feedback such as adding a beginning and ending to my video, and also to add a title that names my interview subjects, and also add text that includes the names of my friends when they are introduced into my video. Therefore, I made some changes based on the comments from my peers. I added my name on the covering photo so audiences could know who made the video. I also added the texts of my friends’ names Sandra and Jackie, so audiences could get a better idea of who they are. For the ending of the video, I put up another slide with the text: Edited by Anyi Zhang” with the date, because I thought the ending seemed a little rush in my draft video. Lastly, I added some effects to my background. I changed the volume of the music at the beginning and ending of my video, so music is not longer loud at both points and also give the viewers more relaxing feelings.
In conclusion, I find this project the hardest among all the projects in this course because it combined all the skills and techniques we have learned in this course so far. But I’m so proud of myself for competing this and I had so much fun creating this video, hope I could create more stuff in the future based on what I have learned in this course.
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