Rough Draft: Just Pizza

John and Jacob
1) What value are you trying to represent?
-In our video, our group tried to represent the value of sharing

2) What do you think your group has done well?
-I think our group did well on composing the shots from the "slap" to the "arguement"

3) What do you still need to complete?
-We still need to finish editing sound and music and adding the ending and credits.

4) What are you most in need of feedback about? (We want to know if..., We're wondering if this camera angle worked when...etc.)
-We want to know if our group portrayed sharing well without having to announce the value with a title

5) Identify a challenge your group discovered and faced in creating the film. Focus on a challenge about how to best tell your story. Describe how you dealt with that challenge, including discussions you had, things you tried and decided to leave out, and what you ultimately did to address it.
-We were missing a group memeber when we started filming, there were inadvertant environmental factors such as unneccessary amount of sunlight.
We just left the sun light in the film but during it we tried our best to stay out of the it as much as possible.

Over The Shoulder Exercise

When doing this short over the shoulder exercise, our group decided on how to act out the scriipt. We decided practicing the acting can lead to how we can plan the location and the shots. Of course there were other groups filming around us and we were limited in location so we just filmed the best way could. When following the rule of thirds, I thought it was an ok job. We didnt hit the exact "sweet" spots of the grid but it followed the principle ok. The over the shoulder shots help show a real conversation and the appearance of each character as they talked. Given the parameters of the location and the time we had to practice the script, the conversation came out pretty well. The compostion isn't up to par but the conversation between Jacob and Morgan turned out better than expected. Sicne there wasn't so much time to practice the characters in the script we gave the tone as a suprise and saracasm towards the end. When Jacob asks "enough to?" we implied we would use the money for entertainment i.e. food, games, party, etc. Then Morgan says it's meant for college and the left Jacob to sarcastically say "yea". When using over the shoulder shots is hepls show a conversation in real time and allows to show the reactions of each character as they say their dialogue.

Holiday Video

Learning how to use the green screen to make our video look as good as possible was a challenge for me and Ryan, seeing that I was going to leave for the Philippines in only a week. That would leave Ryan to finish what was left of the project. Luckily we finished soon with the first run of footage taken. I learned to use animated text to flow in the last bits of our product to add some "flavor", if you will, to our video. If me and Ryan had more time to film and edit the final part instead of the animated text we could of done even more interesting things to make it even better. I would say the most challenging aspect of this project was the fact that I was leaving school early and we were really checking the clock. But even then we finished editing the entire video before most of the other groups. I felt we did a good job in gathering the information and using it as an advantage. We did so with the teleporting transition between holidays. It was a gret idea that kept the video fun and positive, especially since it's the holidays. What i might have done differently? I liked how one group used cell phones to tell each other how they celebrated their holidays. It seemed more serious, which is good in many cases. But comedy was a good suit me and Ryan used well. We split the responsiblities of the project in half. We would switch back and forth because we would share our ideas and take control to easily show what we were trying to represent. I searched for music but to no avail. Ryan found the perfect music to our video in my opinion. I think me and Ryan had difficulties due to the fact that I was leaving soon and that Ryan had to leave to work for BLT. But we've overcome it and did a pretty good job. If I was given another chance to this project over again, I wouldn't know what to change honestly. I liked the ideas of other groups but it's there ideas. To me it just means for me to work harder and help my group create a great video. I had fun working with Ryan, even if he transferred to first block, I look forward to the next projects that await our class.

5 things i learned pt. 3

At the very beginning of the video, at 2:00 and little bit forward, and at 2:43 i learned that there a multiple ways to transition text on titles. I very much liked the intro and how it scrambled multiple letters and spelled the word cyberbullying. It was very different from normal fading and sliding transitions. At 2:43 i liked how the letters dissipated individually giving a ghostly feeling.

5 things i learned pt. 2

From 0:10-0:22, i learned that mixing the speed of the music and the video speed plays an important role in the story's or messages dynamics of the meaning it tries to present itself in. I really like the way the video sped up when the music also sped up. It gives the symbiotic cause and effect kind of feel, when one thing happens the effect happens at the same time

5 things i learned

From 0:38-0:49, they used a panning shot from the sky going down to the subject with a long shot. Then it quickly cuts to a close up of the girl. I learned that using various types of shots for one complete scene gives a good meaning behind it. Having multiple shots of the same scene but organizing them helps when conducting a sort of story and i want to try to use that technique in my next project.

I also learned that there are many types of templates to use for titles, for example the intro and the various interviews have very unique templates. One final thing i learned was the transitions they used. They had a 3-d like transitions like at 0:27 it rolled into a sphere.

Green screen workshop