Today in class are mini lesson was working on shooting good b-roll to prepare us for our final project, which is a news story. To me shooting b-roll comes easily, because I enjoy being behind the camera. Also i think it's good that we got this mini lesson in class so that our teacher is able to help correct us before we go out and record our final project.
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Today in class our mini lesson was about natural sound and what we did was went out and found a place with sound (not noise). Once we found our spot we recorded a wide shot and an extreme tight shot. What we did to edit it was delete the audio to the wide shot and with the extreme tight shot we detached the audio and deleted to video clip. We then proceeded put the audio of the extreme tight shot under the video clip of the wide shot. I think this is a very important skill to know when creating a news story, because when watching the news i've seen this technique many of times.
While creating my six word story project I chose to base my story around my brother just so that if I wanted to reshoot any of my shoots I know he would always be available. The type of shots I used weren't purposely selected, I just sequenced the shots in the order that looked the best and in the order that contributed to my video in the best way. While creating this project I learned that it's okay to set the camera up for a few minutes and just record your subject until you think you have at least a few seconds of good content. Overall I didn't really favor the project because it was hard to only use six word to explain the point I was trying to get across. On the other hand I did love that we got to pick from nineteen different type of shots.
During class today we watched videos that are going to help us understand how to put a news story together. I got a lot of content from theses videos, some of the things that stood out to me are that the video clips tell a story. Each video clip contributes to the narration, but sometimes the videos tell the audience what the narrater doesn't. The narrater delivers the facts, while the video clips could deliver the location and the characters deliver emotions. Also you want to make sure none of the two clips look the same. It's the same template as in there's rising conflict then a resolution near the end of the video.
While completing this project I learned a few new things. One of the most important is that while conducting and interview you always want to make sure the person you're interviewing doesn't look at the camera and keeps their eyes on you. Also when setting up your camera make sure that both of their eyes are in the frame of the camera. I found it very helpful to prepare the person your interviewing also, as in giving them an idea of the questions they will be asked. In addition you want to make sure that they put their microphone in a place that its not touching anything or it'll make a static like sound that'll make them hard to hear.
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Talya HairstonI am a freshmen that attends Ladue Highschool. Archives
October 2018
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