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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Today in class I learned how to properly conduct an interview. Some of the few things that stood out to me are that when interviewing someone you are supposed to be close to the person, because it provides comfort. Also the person you are interviewing gets more comfortable, and might even forget the cameras are around the longer you guys are talking. When asking questions, don't continuously jump around to different categories of questions. Instead you could ask for more details on a question they already answered. Its also okay to coach the person you are interviewing if they are a little nervous. You should make sure they always answer with full sentences and let them know they can add anything they thought you forgot. Another important thing while interviewing are the camera angles and the type of lighting. You always want to keep both eyes in the camera and also make sure the camera isn't too high or too low. The location where you interview the person also could contribute to your interview, because you want to make sure that where you are interviewing there won't be any distractions during the interview.
Today in class I was assigned to film 19 different shots to practice for my six-word story project. While practicing these shots I noticed that I see these type of shots everywhere, like on build boards, on tv, and on ads. Noticing that I see these shots all the time made it less difficult for me to get all the angling right. Out of all 19 shots my favorite shots to film were close-up, extreme angle, depth staging, dark voyeur, medium shot, and over the shoulder shot. I think i liked recording these shots the most because when filming them you have to very close attention to details. I like that also there is clearly a wrong and right way to film these shots, and also the slightest thing could throw the whole shot off. Ernest Hemingway's six- word story blew up because the words he used were simple, but had a deeper meaning to many people. When Ernest created his six-word story many people weren't in a good state finically, so they understood and could relate to his six-word story. I like the six-word story " Surgeon saves patient. Patient thanks God.", the six-word story is pretty self-explanatory. It doesn't actually have a deeper meaning to me, I just think it's funny. Not all six-word stories abide to the same rules, it really just depends on the context of the story. I found this website very helpful when trying to figure out the meaning of Ernest Hemingway's six-word story.
While completing the WALLDO project, I noticed many new things about filming and editing.I think learning the WALLDO filming sequence will be very helpful to my filming later on. Filming the different angles back to back showed me that every angles provides and gives off a different type of image, even if you're filming the same object. With all the angles there's at least a handful of different perspectives the film can give off, depending on how you film it. This project was the project we got to do mostly everything by ourselves. Many people worked at paces, which gave me a more surreal experience of the broadcast industry. Also using final cut pro with little wasn't as hard as I expected it to be. everything to final cut pro is kinda self-explanatory and easy to figure if you paid attention while we were taught how to use it. While doing the video scavenger hunt assignment, I learned that many angles contribute to how visually appealing your video is. Also it gave me a better idea of the different shots, such as tight shot, medium shot, and wide shot. I think it helped me a lot that this project was more of a hands on project, because it gave us room to make errors and correct them. Also while learning how to work final cut pro I did get kinda confusing at times, but I quickly realized that it's a lot like imovie, which helped me understand a lot of things. We learned majority of the operating tools in final cut pro. I feel like it was necessary that we got to play around in the program, rather than just watching a video on how to operate final cut pro.
So far I've learned a lot about basic camera shots. There is the tight shot, closeup shot, medium shot, and the wide shot.In a tight shot it is best to either record hands or facial expressions, but if you are not recording a person usually a tight shot should only have one item in it. A close up shot would be just the head of an person. A medium shot would be the one half of the subject. In a wide shot you should be able to see the subjects full body, with just a little head room.
The IAm project was an assignment given to us to introduce ourselves to our new teachers and classmates, so they could get to know us better. We had to create a trailer on Imovie and make it about us and things we would like our classmates/teachers to know about us. I enjoyed this project, because I got to show people the fun side of me ( which usually doesn't get to come out while i'm at school). Also I really like editing, it's sorta like a stress reliever for me. I do recommend this project, because usually teachers just make you go around the classroom and introduce ourselves. But instead we got to watch cool and entertaining videos about our classmates instead!
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Talya HairstonI am a freshmen that attends Ladue Highschool. Archives
October 2018
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