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I don't think interviews are my thing...
Before I get all discouraged on the project lets talk about all the things I liked about it! 1. I interviewed Yashna, and she was very nice. She didn't get annoyed when I repeated questions or asked her for old photos and videos of her. She was a bit camera shy when I filmed the B-roll of her dancing and looked at the camera a lot but she always had a smile on her face and it made the whole experience that much better. It also helped that I am in the Bollywood Dance Club and she's the club president. I hope in the future I get to interview other nice and well meaning people but I know that's not always going to be the case. So I'm going to be grateful that I practiced the interview process with her 2. I was very happy to do a video about this club. I'm a bit bias because I am a member but I really think it is one of the best clubs in the school. The members are so nice and kind to everyone and it is open to anyone who wants to dance. As Yashna said in the interview you don't have to have dance experience to become a member just an excitement to learn. I'm so glad I got to share this clubs story even if I think I didnt do it justice. 3. I'm glad I got to practice the interview process because I really need it and sometimes in life you have to practice things you're not good at to get better. I really wish I could be magically perfect at this technique style because it would make my whole life a lot easier and less stressful. Now to the things I'm not happy with 1. literally everything else. Ok, maybe I'm being a bit dramatic but I'm coming the the conclusion that I'm not good at filming interviews. I can follow the instructions and format the questions in the right way but they never say what I think they are going to. Yes, that's the point of interviews but it's so difficult planning a project around b-roll you don't have because you never know what they are really going to say. 2. It has also been made apparent that I am dreadfully awful with technology. I think I need to read a book on computers and hard drives and what exactly is a tera bit before my next project because I honestly need all the help I can get. 3. I think I get caught up in my head with a vision on how I think they should look and when it doesn't look that way I get throw off course. I wish I was able to show people what exactly I want my videos to look like and turn that in for my project. But sadly that technology (unlike the evil laptop storage) does not exist yet so I must make do Now that I'm done complaining heres what I'm going to do about it I have decided that I'm going to start from the beginning. I have been trying so hard to create projects that I think I need to go to the basics and create a bunch of very very small projects to get back in the creative groove. I am aware that I said "creative" three times in that sentence but that should be the clue that I am all out of ideas. All I know is that I need to figure it out soon and I think starting fresh after thanksgiving break will help me get ready for this next show. If you want to see Yashna and this amazing club check out my BLOG post :)
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First show of the semester...Who's ready?
I think the first show is always the most difficult, just because of everyone needs to get a hang of working together in a studio setting. With the quick deadline and turn around, I think everyone was a bit stressed going into the project, including me. For my part of the show I worked on a video all about fall fun facts with Heather and Patricia, we called it our "Fall Crash Course." And with group project comes group problems but luckily things turned out all right. I really enjoyed working on this video and creating the script. Most of the videos I have done in the past were only partly scripted not fully scripted. So for me it was interesting to write dialogue that was informative and conversational while not sounding too fake. I think we really started running into problems when we started filming the show. We were filming on a set at school so we needed the segment to be filmed all in one class period which was a challenge. Then when we finally got a take that we liked the footage was corrupted when we plugged the SD card into the computer. There were definitely a few moments were Heather and I looked at each other questioning if we going to have a video by the end of this mess. But we worked with what we had, highlighted the good about the project while finding solutions to fix the bad and used the power of teamwork to get it done. I think our "Halloween Crash Course" really proved that no matter the state a video is in if you try your best and work together it'd going to turn out ok. After this project it's safe to say that I'm going to stay behind the camera for a while :) You can watch the full video on my VIDEOS page! |
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